Crime in Sheffield, Alabama
Major crime in Sheffield is about the U.S. rate per resident: 10% higher for persons crimes and about the same for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.0% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
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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Simple assault stands out most, at 2.4 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Sheffield for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Sheffield
The middle half of Sheffield residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 66 and 140; the typical (median) resident's is 88.
- 0–5019.0%
- 50–10043.3%
- 100–20032.5%
- 200–4005.2%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.0% in a year; across Alabama it fell 8.3%
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.
Sheffield against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
540 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Sheffield; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Sheffield 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, Tuscumbia (3 mi), is 70% below Sheffield's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Sheffield
What are the most common crimes in Sheffield?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 64 a year), aggravated assault (about 27 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 23 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: 2.4 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. Sheffield's figures add up its 11 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Sheffield 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: 9,446. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Sheffield, Alabama." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/al/sheffield
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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