Crime in Miami Beach, Florida
Major crime in Miami Beach is 4.0 times the U.S. rate per resident: 2.7 times for persons crimes and 4.3 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.3% 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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Shoplifting stands out most, at 6.4 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Miami 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 Miami Beach
The middle half of Miami Beach residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 140 and 476; the typical (median) resident's is 220. The citywide figure (405) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10014.7%
- 100–20032.1%
- 200–40023.8%
- 400+29.3%
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 7.3% 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.
Miami Beach against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
None of the 540 other places of this size has a higher major-crime index than Miami Beach; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Miami Beach has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, North Bay Village (2 mi), is 84% below Miami Beach's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Miami Beach
What are the most common crimes in Miami Beach?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 1,989 a year), shoplifting (about 1,642 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 958 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 6.4 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. Miami Beach's figures add up its 96 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Miami Beach has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 0.0% 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: 81,310. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Miami Beach, Florida." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/fl/miami-beach
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- North Bay Village2 mi64
- Surfside4 mi137
- El Portal5 mi118
- Bay Harbor Islands5 mi42
- Miami Shores5 mi156
- Bal Harbour5 mi150
- Miami6 mi142
- North Miami6 mi268