Crime in Fort Myers, Florida
Major crime in Fort Myers is 22% below the U.S. rate per resident: 26% higher for persons crimes and 32% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 14.3% 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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Rape / sexual assault stands out most, at 41% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Fort Myers 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 Myers
The middle half of Fort Myers residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 34 and 97; the typical (median) resident's is 64. The citywide figure (78) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5038.6%
- 50–10040.1%
- 100–20015.5%
- 200–4005.6%
- 400+0.3%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekday daytimes and on Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 14.3% 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 Myers against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
333 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Fort Myers; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Fort Myers 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, Whiskey Creek (4 mi), is 54% below Fort Myers's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Fort Myers
What are the most common crimes in Fort Myers?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 319 a year), aggravated assault (about 281 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 220 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 41% above 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 Myers's figures add up its 69 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Fort Myers has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 64.0% 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: 97,840. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Fort Myers, Florida." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/fl/fort-myers
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Whiskey Creek4 mi36
- Tice4 mi80
- Villas5 mi77
- Lochmoor Waterway Estates5 mi23
- Buckingham5 mi32
- McGregor6 mi34
- Gateway6 mi20
- North Fort Myers7 mi50