Crime in Lehigh Acres, Florida
Major crime in Lehigh Acres is 71% below the U.S. rate per resident: 52% lower for persons crimes and 75% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 19.2% 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 Lehigh Acres is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Lehigh Acres 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 Lehigh Acres
The middle half of Lehigh Acres residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 20 and 30; the typical (median) resident's is 24. The citywide figure (29) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5095.1%
- 50–1002.2%
- 100–2002.6%
- 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 19.2% 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.
Lehigh Acres against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
265 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Lehigh Acres; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Lehigh Acres 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, Gateway (6 mi), is 32% below Lehigh Acres's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Lehigh Acres
What are the most common crimes in Lehigh Acres?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 180 a year), aggravated assault (about 165 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 141 a year). Compared with the U.S., murder stands out most: 42% 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. Lehigh Acres's figures add up its 76 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Lehigh Acres has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 37.5% 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: 145,815. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Lehigh Acres, Florida." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/fl/lehigh-acres
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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