CrimeMetric

Crime in Tavares, Florida

Major crime in Tavares is 57% below the U.S. rate per resident: 54% lower for persons crimes and 58% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 2.4% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
43
57% below the U.S. rate
42% below the Florida rate
up 2.4% in a year
Persons crimes
46
54% below the U.S. rate
43% below the Florida rate
about flat in a year
Property crimes
43
58% below the U.S. rate
42% below the Florida rate
up 2.8% in a year
Social disorder
72
29% below the U.S. rate
7% below the Florida rate
up 7.8% 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

Simple assault stands out most, at 11% above the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Tavares 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 Tavares

The middle half of Tavares residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 34 and 55; the typical (median) resident's is 38.

Map of Tavares, 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.
  • 0–5067.2%
  • 50–10032.8%
  • 100–2000.0%
  • 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 6pm31
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am59
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm33
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am53
Trend and outlook

Major crime rose 2.4% in a year; across Florida it fell 7.8%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime+2.4%FL -7.8%+0.5%FL -7.9%
Persons crimes+0.8%FL -1.4%+16.1%FL +3.7%
Property crimes+2.8%FL -9.3%-3.2%FL -10.8%
Social disorder+7.8%FL -3.5%+8.6%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

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

1,656 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Tavares; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Paris, TX24,733150
Mandan, ND24,790117
Sedalia, MO24,711108
Norco, CA24,75085
Farragut, TN24,78165
Arnold, MD24,78551
Tavares, FL24,73043
Batavia, IL24,69938
Roselle, IL24,70222

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

Nearby places

Tavares has a higher major-crime index than 2 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Eustis (5 mi), is 19% below Tavares's rate.

Leesburg9 mi111
Groveland16 mi101
Apopka15 mi93
Minneola15 mi86
Tavares43
Eustis5 mi35

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

Questions about crime in Tavares

What are the most common crimes in Tavares?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 67 a year), theft from vehicle (about 30 a year) and aggravated assault (about 29 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: 11% 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. Tavares's figures add up its 11 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Tavares 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: 24,730. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100