CrimeMetric

Crime in Sebring, Florida

Major crime in Sebring is 23% below the U.S. rate per resident: 23% lower for persons crimes and 23% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are about flat from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
77
23% below the U.S. rate
about the Florida rate
about flat in a year
Persons crimes
77
23% below the U.S. rate
6% below the Florida rate
down 4.7% in a year
Property crimes
78
23% below the U.S. rate
6% above the Florida rate
up 1.2% in a year
Social disorder
123
23% above the U.S. rate
1.6 times the Florida rate
up 10.0% in a year

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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Crime by type

Murder stands out most, at 4.5 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Sebring 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 Sebring

The middle half of Sebring residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 35 and 94; the typical (median) resident's is 59. The citywide figure (77) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Sebring, 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. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5049.4%
  • 50–10026.9%
  • 100–20020.3%
  • 200–4000.0%
  • 400+3.4%

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 6pm58
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am101
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm67
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am91
Trend and outlook

Major crime rose 0.1% in a year; across Florida it fell 7.8%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime+0.1%FL -7.8%-7.8%FL -7.9%
Persons crimes-4.7%FL -1.4%+3.7%FL +3.7%
Property crimes+1.2%FL -9.3%-10.2%FL -10.8%
Social disorder+10.0%FL -3.5%+3.2%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

Sebring against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents

832 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Sebring; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:

Cheviot, OH9,105170
Monument, CO9,077107
Sebring, FL9,08877
Bryan, OH9,09256
Ripon, WI9,07333
Gypsum, CO9,09224

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

Nearby places

Sebring has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Avon Park (7 mi), is 1.5 times Sebring's rate.

Avon Park7 mi119
Frostproof18 mi90
Arcadia32 mi84
Sebring77
Wauchula23 mi75
Fort Meade28 mi68
Lake Wales31 mi68
Wahneta37 mi42

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

Questions about crime in Sebring

What are the most common crimes in Sebring?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 57 a year), burglary (about 14 a year) and aggravated assault (about 13 a year). Compared with the U.S., murder stands out most: 4.5 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. Sebring's figures add up its 9 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Sebring 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: 9,088. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Sebring, Florida." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/fl/sebring

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100