CrimeMetric

Crime in West Pensacola, Florida

Major crime in West Pensacola is 20% above the U.S. rate per resident: 1.6 times for persons crimes and 11% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.8% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
120
20% above the U.S. rate
1.6 times the Florida rate
down 7.8% in a year
Persons crimes
159
1.6 times the U.S. rate
1.9 times the Florida rate
down 4.8% in a year
Property crimes
111
11% above the U.S. rate
1.5 times the Florida rate
down 8.7% in a year
Social disorder
114
14% above the U.S. rate
47% above the Florida rate
down 6.3% 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

Murder and aggravated assault stand out most, at about 1.7 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in West Pensacola 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 West Pensacola

The middle half of West Pensacola residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 59 and 121; the typical (median) resident's is 100. The citywide figure (120) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of West Pensacola, 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.
  • 0–500.0%
  • 50–10057.1%
  • 100–20027.9%
  • 200–40011.5%
  • 400+3.5%

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 6pm93
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am152
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm101
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am144
Trend and outlook

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

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.8%FL -7.8%-9.3%FL -7.9%
Persons crimes-4.8%FL -1.4%+0.3%FL +3.7%
Property crimes-8.7%FL -9.3%-12.3%FL -10.8%
Social disorder-6.3%FL -3.5%-4.2%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

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

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

Harvey, LA21,530256
West Pensacola, FL21,510120
Boone, NC21,54258
Hernando, MS21,48825

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

Nearby places

West Pensacola has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Myrtle Grove (2 mi), is 45% below West Pensacola's rate.

West Pensacola120
Ensley7 mi99
Brent3 mi91
Goulding2 mi91
Bellview3 mi51
Gonzalez10 mi43

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

Questions about crime in West Pensacola

What are the most common crimes in West Pensacola?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 119 a year), shoplifting (about 91 a year) and aggravated assault (about 83 a year). Compared with the U.S., murder stands out most: 1.7 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. West Pensacola's figures add up its 15 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • West Pensacola has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 35.7% 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: 21,510. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in West Pensacola, Florida." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/fl/west-pensacola

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100