Crime in Brownsville, Florida
Major crime in Brownsville is 2.1 times the U.S. rate per resident: 2.3 times for persons crimes and 2.1 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 17.7% 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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Motor vehicle theft and murder stand out most, at about 3.9 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Brownsville 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 Brownsville
The middle half of Brownsville residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 164 and 194; the typical (median) resident's is 178. The citywide figure (211) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–1000.0%
- 100–20076.5%
- 200–40017.6%
- 400+6.0%
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 17.7% in a year; across Florida it fell 7.8%
Change in expected crimes, with Florida as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Brownsville against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
101 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Brownsville; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Brownsville has a higher major-crime index than 7 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Gladeview (1 mi), is 6% above Brownsville's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Brownsville
What are the most common crimes in Brownsville?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are theft from vehicle (about 164 a year), other larceny (about 135 a year) and motor vehicle theft (about 106 a year). Compared with the U.S., motor vehicle theft stands out most: 3.9 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. Brownsville's figures add up its 14 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Brownsville's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 94.8% 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: 17,045. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Brownsville, Florida." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/fl/brownsville
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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