Crime in St. Petersburg, Florida
Major crime in St. Petersburg is 37% above the U.S. rate per resident: 1.5 times for persons crimes and 34% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.6% 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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Theft from vehicle stands out most, at 2.1 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in St. Petersburg 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 St. Petersburg
The middle half of St. Petersburg residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 50 and 149; the typical (median) resident's is 83. The citywide figure (137) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5024.0%
- 50–10032.7%
- 100–20027.6%
- 200–40010.4%
- 400+5.4%
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 7.6% 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.
St. Petersburg against U.S. places with 250,000 to 500,000 residents
29 of the 53 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than St. Petersburg; the middle of the group is 142. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
St. Petersburg has a higher major-crime index than 7 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Lealman (2 mi), is 36% below St. Petersburg's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in St. Petersburg
What are the most common crimes in St. Petersburg?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 1,880 a year), theft from vehicle (about 1,465 a year) and aggravated assault (about 985 a year). Compared with the U.S., theft from vehicle stands out most: 2.1 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. St. Petersburg's figures add up its 221 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- St. Petersburg's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 13.8% 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: 265,140. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in St. Petersburg, Florida." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/fl/st-petersburg
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Lealman2 mi88
- Gulfport4 mi133
- West Lealman5 mi82
- South Pasadena5 mi95
- Pinellas Park5 mi140
- Treasure Island6 mi70
- St. Pete Beach6 mi84
- Bardmoor7 mi44