Crime in Ocala, Florida
Major crime in Ocala is 31% above the U.S. rate per resident: 8% higher for persons crimes and 36% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 12.4% 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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Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 3.3 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Ocala 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 Ocala
The middle half of Ocala residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 53 and 123; the typical (median) resident's is 89. The citywide figure (131) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5024.6%
- 50–10032.3%
- 100–20031.5%
- 200–4006.8%
- 400+4.8%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekend daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 12.4% 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.
Ocala against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
131 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Ocala; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Ocala 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, Silver Springs Shores (8 mi), is 66% below Ocala's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Ocala
What are the most common crimes in Ocala?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 627 a year), shoplifting (about 590 a year) and aggravated assault (about 203 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 3.3 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. Ocala's figures add up its 44 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Ocala's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 56.4% 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: 78,215. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Ocala, Florida." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/fl/ocala
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Silver Springs Shores8 mi44
- Belleview9 mi114
- Liberty Triangle9 mi37
- Marion Oaks12 mi35
- Rainbow Springs19 mi39
- Rainbow Lakes Estates21 mi37
- Hernando23 mi48
- Citrus Springs24 mi22