Crime in Fort Walton Beach, Florida
Major crime in Fort Walton Beach is about the U.S. rate per resident: 44% higher for persons crimes and 5% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.4% 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 2.8 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Fort Walton Beach 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 Walton Beach
The middle half of Fort Walton Beach residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 55 and 137; the typical (median) resident's is 94.
- 0–5013.5%
- 50–10040.3%
- 100–20036.9%
- 200–4009.3%
- 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 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 7.4% 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 Walton Beach against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
635 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Fort Walton Beach; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Fort Walton Beach 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, Ocean City (1 mi), is 68% below Fort Walton Beach's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Fort Walton Beach
What are the most common crimes in Fort Walton Beach?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 99 a year), aggravated assault (about 65 a year) and shoplifting (about 63 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 2.8 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 Walton Beach's figures add up its 17 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Fort Walton Beach has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 39.8% 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: 19,679. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Fort Walton Beach, Florida." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/fl/fort-walton-beach
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Ocean City1 mi34
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- Miramar Beach17 mi60
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