Crime in Fort Myers Shores, Florida
Major crime in Fort Myers Shores is 52% below the U.S. rate per resident: 33% lower for persons crimes and 57% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 19.6% 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 Fort Myers Shores is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Fort Myers Shores 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 Shores
The middle half of Fort Myers Shores residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 29 and 68; the typical (median) resident's is 29. The citywide figure (48) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5051.3%
- 50–10048.7%
- 100–2000.0%
- 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 Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 19.6% 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 Shores against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
1,427 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Fort Myers Shores; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Fort Myers Shores has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Buckingham (4 mi), is 32% below Fort Myers Shores's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Fort Myers Shores
What are the most common crimes in Fort Myers Shores?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 13 a year), aggravated assault (about 11 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 10 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 10% 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. Fort Myers Shores's figures add up its 5 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Fort Myers Shores has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 73.8% 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: 6,795. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Fort Myers Shores, Florida." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/fl/fort-myers-shores
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Buckingham4 mi32
- Tice5 mi80
- Alva7 mi37
- Suncoast Estates8 mi43
- Lehigh Acres9 mi29
- North Fort Myers9 mi50
- Gateway9 mi20
- Fort Myers9 mi78