Crime in Vestavia Hills, Alabama
Major crime in Vestavia Hills is 55% below the U.S. rate per resident: 74% lower for persons crimes and 51% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.7% 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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Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 1.9 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Vestavia Hills 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 Vestavia Hills
The middle half of Vestavia Hills residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 25 and 58; the typical (median) resident's is 37. The citywide figure (45) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5056.9%
- 50–10042.0%
- 100–2001.1%
- 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.
Highest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.7% 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.
Vestavia Hills against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
772 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Vestavia Hills; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Vestavia Hills has a higher major-crime index than 2 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Homewood (3 mi), is 2.1 times Vestavia Hills's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Vestavia Hills
What are the most common crimes in Vestavia Hills?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 157 a year), theft from vehicle (about 40 a year) and shoplifting (about 27 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 1.9 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. Vestavia Hills's figures add up its 25 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Vestavia Hills has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 9.2% 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: 37,718. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Vestavia Hills, Alabama." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/al/vestavia-hills
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