Crime in Cape Coral, Florida
Major crime in Cape Coral is 57% below the U.S. rate per resident: 70% lower for persons crimes and 54% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.5% 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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Every crime type in Cape Coral is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Cape Coral 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 Cape Coral
The middle half of Cape Coral residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 27 and 49; the typical (median) resident's is 35. The citywide figure (43) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5076.3%
- 50–10017.7%
- 100–2006.1%
- 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 weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.5% 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.
Cape Coral against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
253 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Cape Coral; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Cape Coral has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Lochmoor Waterway Estates (4 mi), is 47% below Cape Coral's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Cape Coral
What are the most common crimes in Cape Coral?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 993 a year), theft from vehicle (about 292 a year) and burglary (about 188 a year). Compared with the U.S., other larceny stands out most: 18% below 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. Cape Coral's figures add up its 122 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Cape Coral 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: 242,243. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Cape Coral, Florida." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/fl/cape-coral
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Lochmoor Waterway Estates4 mi23
- McGregor6 mi34
- Whiskey Creek7 mi36
- Cypress Lake8 mi39
- Iona8 mi54
- North Fort Myers8 mi50
- Villas8 mi77
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