Crime in Tampa, Florida
Major crime in Tampa is 34% below the U.S. rate per resident: 20% higher for persons crimes and 46% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 14.1% 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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Simple assault stands out most, at 1.8 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Tampa 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 Tampa
The middle half of Tampa residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 29 and 77; the typical (median) resident's is 50. The citywide figure (66) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5050.7%
- 50–10034.0%
- 100–20012.0%
- 200–4002.3%
- 400+1.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest at night
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 14.1% 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.
Tampa against U.S. places with 250,000 to 500,000 residents
50 of the 53 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Tampa; the middle of the group is 142. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Tampa 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, Egypt Lake-Leto (4 mi), is 31% below Tampa's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Tampa
What are the most common crimes in Tampa?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 1,336 a year), aggravated assault (about 1,226 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 615 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: 1.8 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. Tampa's figures add up its 322 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Tampa has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 44.7% 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: 413,785. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Tampa, Florida." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/fl/tampa
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Egypt Lake-Leto4 mi46
- East Lake-Orient Park5 mi50
- Temple Terrace6 mi124
- University6 mi57
- Carrollwood6 mi27
- Lake Magdalene7 mi34
- Palm River-Clair Mel7 mi34
- Town 'n' Country8 mi37