CrimeMetric

Crime in Port Charlotte, Florida

Major crime in Port Charlotte is 59% below the U.S. rate per resident: 54% lower for persons crimes and 61% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 5.1% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
41
59% below the U.S. rate
45% below the Florida rate
down 5.1% in a year
Persons crimes
46
54% below the U.S. rate
43% below the Florida rate
up 15.9% in a year
Property crimes
39
61% below the U.S. rate
46% below the Florida rate
down 9.4% in a year
Social disorder
68
32% below the U.S. rate
11% below the Florida rate
up 4.3% in a year

Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.

Check an address in Port Charlotte

Crime by type

Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 21% above the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Port Charlotte for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across Port Charlotte

The middle half of Port Charlotte residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 19 and 45; the typical (median) resident's is 28. The citywide figure (41) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Port Charlotte, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Tap one to compare it. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5077.8%
  • 50–10015.8%
  • 100–2005.5%
  • 200–4000.9%
  • 400+0.0%

Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.

When it happens

Highest on weeknights

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm32
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am51
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm37
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am47
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 5.1% in a year; across Florida it fell 7.8%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-5.1%FL -7.8%-1.5%FL -7.9%
Persons crimes+15.9%FL -1.4%+15.0%FL +3.7%
Property crimes-9.4%FL -9.3%-5.8%FL -10.8%
Social disorder+4.3%FL -3.5%+6.5%FL -0.3%

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.

Similar-size places

Port Charlotte against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents

509 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Port Charlotte; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:

Kalamazoo, MI73,360227
Yuba City, CA73,016103
Dublin, CA72,69874
Ankeny, IA72,96472
Port Charlotte, FL73,05841

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Port Charlotte 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, Charlotte Harbor (3 mi), is 2.8 times Port Charlotte's rate.

Arcadia22 mi84
Cleveland8 mi82
Grove City14 mi62
Englewood15 mi45
Port Charlotte41

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Port Charlotte

What are the most common crimes in Port Charlotte?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 178 a year), aggravated assault (about 96 a year) and shoplifting (about 73 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 21% above 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. Port Charlotte's figures add up its 37 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Port Charlotte has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 13.3% 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: 73,058. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

Full method and validation·Data sources

Cite this page

CrimeMetric. "Crime in Port Charlotte, Florida." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/fl/port-charlotte

Use these numbers in your product

Any U.S. address by API or MCP, free for 10,000 lookups a month.

Get a free API key

Nearest cities we publish

Major-crime index, U.S. = 100