Crime in The Villages, Florida
Major crime in The Villages is 76% below the U.S. rate per resident: 78% lower for persons crimes and 75% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 3.4% 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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Every crime type in The Villages is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in The Villages 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 The Villages
The middle half of The Villages residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 12 and 21; the typical (median) resident's is 14. The citywide figure (24) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5087.8%
- 50–10011.4%
- 100–2000.0%
- 200–4000.9%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest in the daytime
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime rose 3.4% 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.
The Villages against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
539 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than The Villages; the middle of the group is 91. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
The Villages has a lower major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Wildwood (5 mi), is 2.4 times The Villages's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in The Villages
What are the most common crimes in The Villages?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 134 a year), shoplifting (about 99 a year) and aggravated assault (about 55 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 50% below 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. The Villages's figures add up its 39 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Published incident records inform the estimate for neighborhoods home to 9.4% of The Villages's residents; elsewhere it relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 15.4% 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: 94,330. Model updated Nov 1, 2026. Release 2026-2026-11-01
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in The Villages, Florida." Vorp Labs, model updated Nov 1, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/fl/the-villages
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Wildwood5 mi59
- Fruitland Park5 mi38
- Leesburg10 mi110
- Lake Panasoffkee12 mi85
- Belleview13 mi114
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