Gainesville Fraud

Gainesville · Fraud · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, Gainesville police open data recorded 445 fraud incidents, 5.8% of all 7,688 incidents reported in the city that year and up 32.4% from 2024. That is about 299 per 100,000 residents, compared with 309 per 100,000 across the 58 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 429 fraud incidents have been published.

Fraud in Gainesville by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)429——
2025445299up 32.4%
2024336226down 2.9%
2023346233down 20.3%
2022434292down 1.4%
2021440296down 20.1%
2020551370up 11.5%

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 7,888 fraud incidents.

Questions

How many fraud incidents were reported in Gainesville in 2025?

445, according to Gainesville Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.

Is fraud going up or down in Gainesville?

Reported fraud was up 32.4% in 2025 compared with 2024, and up 2.5% compared with 2022 (rising over three years).

Where does this data come from?

Source: Gainesville Police Department open data. TheCrimeMaps.com groups each published offense into a crime type; counts are police-reported incidents, not convictions, and some reports are reclassified or removed by the source later.

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