Crime in Lakeland Highlands, Florida
Major crime in Lakeland Highlands is 70% below the U.S. rate per resident: 64% lower for persons crimes and 71% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 10.2% 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 Lakeland Highlands is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Lakeland Highlands 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 Lakeland Highlands
The middle half of Lakeland Highlands residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 12 and 34; the typical (median) resident's is 16. The citywide figure (30) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5087.6%
- 50–10012.4%
- 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 weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 10.2% 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.
Lakeland Highlands against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,954 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Lakeland Highlands; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Lakeland Highlands has a higher major-crime index than 2 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Medulla (2 mi), is 47% above Lakeland Highlands's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Lakeland Highlands
What are the most common crimes in Lakeland Highlands?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 20 a year), aggravated assault (about 16 a year) and shoplifting (about 16 a year). Compared with the U.S., burglary stands out most: 57% 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. Lakeland Highlands's figures add up its 7 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Lakeland Highlands has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 12.4% 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: 15,935. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Lakeland Highlands, Florida." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/fl/lakeland-highlands
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Medulla2 mi45
- Highland City4 mi32
- Fuller Heights4 mi29
- Mulberry4 mi52
- Willow Oak5 mi24
- Crystal Lake6 mi78
- Lakeland6 mi94
- Combee Settlement7 mi66