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Safety in Tarrant · Not graded

Crime reported in Tarrant, AL

Tarrant has no FBI crime figures of its own for 2023–2025, so there is nothing to grade it on.

Violent crimes
149
reported to the FBI, 2022
Property crimes
270
reported to the FBI, 2022
Nearest graded town
3 mi
Fultondale (C−)
1,000 neighbors · one year

For every 1,000 residents, about 46 property crimes reported

And about 25 violent crimes, in 2022. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.

Property crime (45.7)Violent crime (25.2)Everyone else

Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2022

Tarrant25.2
Rest of AL5.3
U.S. (FBI)4.0

Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2022

Tarrant45.7
Rest of AL24.8
U.S. (FBI)20.0

Crimes reported to police in 2022 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.

By year

The years Tarrant’s police reported

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents, against the rest of Alabama. A year the department didn’t report in full is a gap, not a zero.

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YearTarrantRest of AlabamaTarrantRest of Alabama
202245.724.825.25.3
2023not reported22.2not reported4.9
2024not reported21.7not reported4.8
2025not reported19.9not reported4.4

Crimes per 1,000 residents

What gets reported

419 crimes reported in 2022

149 violent and 270 property, as reported to the FBI by Tarrant’s police.

2022 offenses reported

Larceny / theft168
Burglary58
Vehicle theft44
Aggravated assault131
Robbery15
Rape3
Homicide0
Arson5
149
violent crimes
270
property crimes

Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.

Nearest with figures

The nearest Alabama towns with a Safety Grade

Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

TownGradeDistanceViolentProperty
FultondaleC−3 mi3.024.2
BirminghamD−5 mi13.443.2
GardendaleC6 mi2.318.0
IrondaleC7 mi2.218.9
Mountain BrookA−7 mi0.58.0
BrooksideC−8 mi4.219.6

Straight-line distance from the center of Tarrant. Nearby towns can differ a lot from Tarrant.

On the roads

Four people died in crashes on Tarrant’s roads in 2019–2023

Tarrant had 4 fatal crashes in five years, in which four people died.

That is about what is typical for Alabama towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (9.6 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Tarrant’s size would see about 3 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Tarrant’s own rate (13.5) is context, not a ranking.

4
people died in crashes, 2019–2023
0
pedestrians among them
0
cyclists among them
13.5
per 100,000 a year · Alabama towns of 5,000–25,000: 9.6

Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.

Next door

Tarrant and its neighbors

How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.

A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty
BirminghamD−13.443.2
FultondaleC−3.024.2

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
  • One number for all of Tarrant. A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
  • Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Tarrant’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
  • Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (5,913 in 2022); our figure for Tarrant is 5,639 (2025 Census estimate).
  • Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.

How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →

Questions about safety in Tarrant

Is Tarrant, AL safe?

There is no Safety Grade for Tarrant. Tarrant has no FBI crime figures of its own for 2023–2025, so there is nothing to grade it on. The nearest Alabama towns with a grade are Fultondale (C−, 3 mi), Birmingham (D−, 5 mi), Gardendale (C, 6 mi).

Who polices Tarrant?

Tarrant’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Tarrant”. Its figures are the ones on this page.

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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2022, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.