Crime in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Major crime in Fort Lauderdale is 1.8 times the U.S. rate per resident: 2.1 times for persons crimes and 1.8 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 20.1% 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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Robbery stands out most, at 3.7 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Fort Lauderdale 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 Fort Lauderdale
The middle half of Fort Lauderdale residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 69 and 249; the typical (median) resident's is 127. The citywide figure (182) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5016.1%
- 50–10022.0%
- 100–20030.3%
- 200–40023.1%
- 400+8.5%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 20.1% 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.
Fort Lauderdale against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
48 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Fort Lauderdale; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Fort Lauderdale has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Wilton Manors (2 mi), is 31% below Fort Lauderdale's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Fort Lauderdale
What are the most common crimes in Fort Lauderdale?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 2,057 a year), theft from vehicle (about 1,189 a year) and aggravated assault (about 859 a year). Compared with the U.S., robbery stands out most: 3.7 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. Fort Lauderdale's figures add up its 138 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Fort Lauderdale's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 70.8% 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: 193,422. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Fort Lauderdale, Florida." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/fl/fort-lauderdale
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Wilton Manors2 mi125
- Oakland Park3 mi133
- Lauderdale Lakes4 mi102
- Broadview Park5 mi37
- Lauderhill5 mi109
- Lauderdale-by-the-Sea5 mi59
- Dania Beach6 mi123
- North Lauderdale7 mi69