CrimeMetric

Crime in Red Bay, Alabama

Major crime in Red Bay is 10% below the U.S. rate per resident: 42% lower for persons crimes and about the same for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.2% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
90
10% below the U.S. rate
10% below the Alabama rate
down 8.2% in a year
Persons crimes
58
42% below the U.S. rate
46% below the Alabama rate
down 5.5% in a year
Property crimes
97
about the U.S. rate
about the Alabama rate
down 8.6% in a year
Social disorder
141
41% above the U.S. rate
about the Alabama rate
down 6.3% in a year

Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.

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Crime by type

Murder stands out most, at 4.9 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Red Bay for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

Neighborhoods in Red Bay

Red Bay is made up of 3 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 79; the middle half of residents live where it is between 68 and 143.

Map of Red Bay, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the key's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–500.0%
  • 50–10074.8%
  • 100–20025.2%
  • 200–4000.0%
  • 400+0.0%

Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.

When it happens

Highest on weeknights

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm87
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am101
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm86
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am81
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 8.2% in a year; across Alabama it fell 8.3%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-8.2%AL -8.3%-15.4%AL -12.4%
Persons crimes-5.5%AL -5.4%-2.0%AL -0.5%
Property crimes-8.6%AL -8.9%-17.1%AL -15.2%
Social disorder-6.3%AL -5.4%-9.4%AL -5.7%

Change in expected crimes, with Alabama as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.

Similar-size places

Red Bay against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents

473 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Red Bay; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:

Elroy, NC3,255130
Red Bay, AL3,25490
Bandon, OR3,24840
Etna, PA3,25332
Genoa, OH3,25621

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Red Bay has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Fulton (20 mi), is 19% below Red Bay's rate.

Hamilton23 mi92
Red Bay90
Fulton, MS20 mi73
Iuka, MS27 mi73
Tuscumbia31 mi31

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Red Bay

What are the most common crimes in Red Bay?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 32 a year), burglary (about 5 a year) and aggravated assault (about 4 a year). Compared with the U.S., murder stands out most: 4.9 times the U.S. rate per resident.

How we calculated this

Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Red Bay's figures add up its 3 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Red Bay has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 0.0% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
  • Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
  • Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
  • Residents: 3,254. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Red Bay, Alabama." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/al/red-bay

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100