Crime in Laurel, Florida
Major crime in Laurel is 65% below the U.S. rate per resident: 70% lower for persons crimes and 64% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 20.7% 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 Laurel is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Laurel 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 Laurel
The middle half of Laurel residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 16 and 42; the typical (median) resident's is 22. The citywide figure (35) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5076.1%
- 50–10023.9%
- 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 20.7% 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.
Laurel against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,857 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Laurel; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Laurel 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, Gulf Gate (8 mi), is 1.8 times Laurel's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Laurel
What are the most common crimes in Laurel?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 23 a year), shoplifting (about 15 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 15 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: 50% 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. Laurel's figures add up its 11 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Laurel's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 9.1% 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: 13,370. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Laurel, Florida." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/fl/laurel
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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- South Gate Ridge10 mi39
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