Crime in Sarasota, Florida
Major crime in Sarasota is 10% below the U.S. rate per resident: 34% higher for persons crimes and 19% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 14.6% 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 2.3 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Sarasota 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 Sarasota
The middle half of Sarasota residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 58 and 116; the typical (median) resident's is 83.
- 0–5018.7%
- 50–10041.9%
- 100–20039.3%
- 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 weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 14.6% 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.
Sarasota against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
277 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Sarasota; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Sarasota 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, Kensington Park (3 mi), is 65% below Sarasota's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Sarasota
What are the most common crimes in Sarasota?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 323 a year), aggravated assault (about 178 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 141 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 2.3 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. Sarasota's figures add up its 43 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Sarasota has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 37.2% 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: 58,281. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Sarasota, Florida." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/fl/sarasota
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Kensington Park3 mi32
- Southgate3 mi41
- South Sarasota4 mi77
- Ridge Wood Heights4 mi32
- Fruitville4 mi51
- Sarasota Springs4 mi28
- South Gate Ridge4 mi39
- Siesta Key5 mi46