Gainesville Crime Map
Florida · Latest 24h · updated 2026-11-12
| Latest 24h | 12 incidents, 3 violent (2026-11-09) |
|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | 6,587 incidents through October |
| 2025 (full year) | 7,688 incidents |
| Full archive | 173,653 incidents (2011–2026) |
| Per 100K / year | 5,169 |
Source: Gainesville Police Department open data.
About crime in Gainesville
Latest mapped day. Gainesville recorded 12 incidents on 2026-11-09, including 3 violent-category incidents. This is a short-window snapshot of police open data, not a personal-safety score.
Year-over-year context
Gainesville recorded 8,171 incidents in 2024 and 7,688 in 2025, a 5.9% decrease. Year-to-year comparisons depend on consistent source coverage and reporting definitions.
Latest 24h (2026-11-09) category breakdown
| Theft | 3 |
| Fraud | 3 |
| Assault | 2 |
| Vandalism | 2 |
| Sexual assault | 1 |
| Other | 1 |
Across 2011–2026, the current archive contains 173,653 incidents for Gainesville. Missing categories or periods reflect what the source publishes; missing is not zero.
Gainesville crime overview
Essay updated 2026-11-12 · figures above are from the latest data
TL;DR. Gainesville recorded 7,688 police-reported incidents in 2025, down 5.9% from 8,171 in 2024. Other was the largest category with 2,214 incidents (28.8%), followed by Theft with 1,572 and Assault with 1,517. Violent-category incidents totaled 1,762, or 22.9% of the 2025 total. Data is sourced from the Gainesville Police Department and is current through November 2026, covering 12 months of 2025.
About this data
TheCrimeMaps plots police-reported incidents for Gainesville, Florida, using open data from the Gainesville Police Department. The map shows each incident location for calendar year 2025, when the city recorded 7,688 police-reported incidents. Data are current through November 2026.
That total equals 5,169.4 reported incidents per 100,000 residents in 2025, based on the U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2024 population estimate of 148,720 for the city. The rate describes police-reported incidents, not personal risk. Violent-category incidents, defined as assault plus sexual assault, robbery, shooting and homicide, totaled 1,762 in 2025, or 22.9% of all incidents, for a violent rate of 1,184.8 reported incidents per 100,000 residents. Theft with 1,572 reports and Assault with 1,517 reports were the largest specific categories behind Other in 2025.
Recent trend
Gainesville recorded 7,688 incidents in complete year 2025, a 5.9% decline from 8,171 in complete year 2024. That continues a longer decrease from earlier complete years such as 14,162 in 2011 and 12,163 in 2014, with 9,924 in 2022 and 8,933 in 2023 before the 2024 and 2025 counts. For the current partial window, January–October 2026 recorded 6,587 incidents compared with 6,453 in the same months of 2025, a 2.1% increase on a same-months basis. The 2026 full-year file remains partial with 11 months of data.
Category breakdown
Other was the largest grouping in 2025 with 2,214 incidents, or 28.8% of the 7,688 total. The source groups many incident types under Other, including Other crime with 1,412 reports, Drugs with 417, Harassment with 174, Impaired & dangerous driving with 93, Threats with 72 and Weapons offenses with 46. Theft followed with 1,572 incidents, or 20.4%, and Assault was next with 1,517 incidents, or 19.7%. Burglary added 665 incidents, or 8.6%, while Vandalism added 528 incidents, or 6.9%, and Fraud added 445 incidents, or 5.8%. Violent-category incidents totaled 1,762 in 2025, compared with the 1,517 Assault reports counted separately within that definition.
What this means
Gainesville's 2025 file centers on 7,688 incidents, with Other at 2,214 reports or 28.8% setting it apart from Theft at 1,572 reports or 20.4% and Assault at 1,517 reports or 19.7%. Burglary at 665 reports or 8.6% sits well below those three, followed by Vandalism at 528 reports or 6.9% and Fraud at 445 reports or 5.8%. The archive shows 14,162 in 2011 and 8,171 in 2024 before 7,688 in 2025, so readers see fewer reports than in the earliest years while the top three categories shape the current mix.
FAQ
How many incidents were reported in Gainesville in 2025?
Gainesville had 7,688 police-reported incidents in calendar year 2025. That equals 5,169.4 reported incidents per 100,000 residents in 2025, based on the U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2024 population estimate of 148,720 for the city. The total includes 1,762 violent-category incidents, which were 22.9% of the 2025 total.
What was the most common type of crime reported in Gainesville in 2025?
Other was the largest category in 2025 with 2,214 incidents, or 28.8% of the 7,688 total. In this dataset Other groups together other crime with 1,412 incidents, drugs with 417, harassment with 174, impaired and dangerous driving with 93, threats with 72, and weapons offenses with 46. Theft was next with 1,572 incidents.
Is crime going up or down in Gainesville?
Reported incidents declined between the two consecutive complete calendar years. Gainesville went from 8,171 incidents in 2024 to 7,688 incidents in 2025, a decrease of 5.9%. For the same months comparison, January-October 2026 had 6,587 incidents compared with 6,453 in January-October 2025, an increase of 2.1%.
Which Gainesville neighborhoods had the most crime in 2025?
The 2025 data provided for Gainesville does not include a ranked list of named neighborhoods by incidents. Citywide, Gainesville recorded 7,688 police-reported incidents in calendar year 2025, including 1,517 assaults, 1,572 thefts and 665 burglaries. Readers looking for smaller-area detail should use the city total rather than assume a neighborhood breakdown is available in this release.
Where does Gainesville crime data come from?
The figures on this page come from the Gainesville Police Department, listed as the upstream open-data source for Gainesville. The 2025 categories include theft with 1,572 incidents, assault with 1,517 incidents and burglary with 665 incidents. Vandalism accounted for 528 incidents and fraud for 445 incidents in the same calendar-year dataset.
How current is the Gainesville crime data?
The dataset is current through November 2026. The headline total of 7,688 incidents covers the complete calendar year 2025 with 12 months of data. More recent figures cover January-October 2026 with 6,587 incidents, and the archive from 2011 to 2026 totals 173,653 incidents across all years combined.
Explore Gainesville
By category
- Gainesville Assault (26,326)
- Gainesville Sexual assault (734)
- Gainesville Robbery (2,270)
- Gainesville Shooting (528)
- Gainesville Homicide (114)
- Gainesville Burglary (20,373)
- Gainesville Auto theft (7,053)
- Gainesville Theft from vehicle (1,475)
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- Gainesville Vandalism (15,607)
- Gainesville Fraud (7,888)
- Gainesville Other (47,999)
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