Crime in Winter Haven, Florida
Major crime in Winter Haven is 8% below the U.S. rate per resident: 9% lower for persons crimes and 8% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.5% 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 25% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Winter Haven 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 Winter Haven
The middle half of Winter Haven residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 42 and 92; the typical (median) resident's is 66. The citywide figure (92) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5044.8%
- 50–10037.4%
- 100–2007.1%
- 200–4007.1%
- 400+3.7%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.5% 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.
Winter Haven against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
267 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Winter Haven; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Winter Haven 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, Cypress Gardens (2 mi), is 50% below Winter Haven's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Winter Haven
What are the most common crimes in Winter Haven?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 254 a year), shoplifting (about 208 a year) and aggravated assault (about 143 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: 25% 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. Winter Haven's figures add up its 27 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Winter Haven has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 35.6% 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: 56,091. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Winter Haven, Florida." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/fl/winter-haven
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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