CrimeMetric

Crime in Sweetwater, Florida

Major crime in Sweetwater is 12% below the U.S. rate per resident: 38% lower for persons crimes and 6% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.1% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
88
12% below the U.S. rate
19% above the Florida rate
down 7.1% in a year
Persons crimes
62
38% below the U.S. rate
24% below the Florida rate
down 4.9% in a year
Property crimes
94
6% below the U.S. rate
29% above the Florida rate
down 7.4% in a year
Social disorder
97
about the U.S. rate
25% above the Florida rate
down 5.9% 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

Other larceny stands out most, at 31% above the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Sweetwater 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 Sweetwater

The middle half of Sweetwater residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 54 and 119; the typical (median) resident's is 88.

Map of Sweetwater, 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.
  • 0–5021.8%
  • 50–10039.3%
  • 100–20038.9%
  • 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.

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 6pm69
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am113
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm80
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am98
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.1% in a year; across Florida it fell 7.8%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.1%FL -7.8%-5.6%FL -7.9%
Persons crimes-4.9%FL -1.4%+4.8%FL +3.7%
Property crimes-7.4%FL -9.3%-7.1%FL -10.8%
Social disorder-5.9%FL -3.5%+1.6%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

Sweetwater against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents

825 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Sweetwater; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Gallup, NM21,105302
Gautier, MS21,069108
Sweetwater, FL21,08388
El Reno, OK21,06868

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

Nearby places

Sweetwater has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Tamiami (2 mi), is 15% below Sweetwater's rate.

Sunset5 mi96
Sweetwater88
Tamiami2 mi75
Doral4 mi63

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

Questions about crime in Sweetwater

What are the most common crimes in Sweetwater?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 138 a year), theft from vehicle (about 63 a year) and shoplifting (about 59 a year). Compared with the U.S., other larceny stands out most: 31% 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. Sweetwater's figures add up its 11 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Sweetwater 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: 21,083. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100