Gainesville Sexual assault

Gainesville · Sexual assault · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, Gainesville police open data recorded 135 sexual assault incidents, 1.8% of all 7,688 incidents reported in the city that year and up 5.5% from 2024. That is about 90.8 per 100,000 residents, compared with 80.9 per 100,000 across the 42 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 157 sexual assault incidents have been published.

Sexual assault in Gainesville by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)157——
202513590.8up 5.5%
202412886.1down 13.5%
202314899.5down 5.1%
2022156105—
2021106.7—
2020———

— : the police feed published no sexual assault incidents that year (usually a change in how it labels offenses), so the count is unknown rather than zero.

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 734 sexual assault incidents.

Questions

How many sexual assault incidents were reported in Gainesville in 2025?

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

Is sexual assault going up or down in Gainesville?

Reported sexual assault was up 5.5% in 2025 compared with 2024, and down 13.5% compared with 2022 (falling 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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