Crime in Panama City Beach, Florida
Major crime in Panama City Beach is 16% below the U.S. rate per resident: 40% lower for persons crimes and 11% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 1.1% 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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Trespassing stands out most, at 1.6 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Panama City 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 Panama City Beach
The middle half of Panama City Beach residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 40 and 72; the typical (median) resident's is 50. The citywide figure (84) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5044.6%
- 50–10043.1%
- 100–2000.0%
- 200–4006.2%
- 400+6.2%
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 rose 1.1% 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.
Panama City Beach against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
897 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Panama City Beach; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Panama City Beach has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Upper Grand Lagoon (6 mi), is 58% below Panama City Beach's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Panama City Beach
What are the most common crimes in Panama City Beach?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 125 a year), shoplifting (about 107 a year) and aggravated assault (about 31 a year). Compared with the U.S., trespassing stands out most: 1.6 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. Panama City Beach's figures add up its 12 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Panama City Beach has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 22.3% 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: 22,025. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Panama City Beach, Florida." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/fl/panama-city-beach
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Upper Grand Lagoon6 mi35
- Lower Grand Lagoon7 mi62
- Panama City11 mi89
- Springfield15 mi102
- Callaway17 mi52
- Miramar Beach32 mi60
- DeFuniak Springs39 mi81
- Destin40 mi27