Gainesville Shooting
Gainesville · Shooting · updated 2026-11-12
In 2025, the latest complete year, Gainesville police open data recorded 14 shooting incidents, 0.2% of all 7,688 incidents reported in the city that year. That is about 9.4 per 100,000 residents, compared with 24.1 per 100,000 across the 7 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 17 shooting incidents have been published.
Shooting in Gainesville by year
| Year | Incidents | Per 100K | vs prior year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | 17 | — | — |
| 2025 | 14 | 9.4 | — |
| 2024 | 25 | 16.8 | — |
| 2023 | 18 | 12.1 | — |
| 2022 | 41 | 27.6 | up 7.9% |
| 2021 | 38 | 25.6 | up 2.7% |
| 2020 | 37 | 24.9 | up 37.0% |
Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 528 shooting incidents.
Questions
How many shooting incidents were reported in Gainesville in 2025?
14, according to Gainesville Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.
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.
Other crime types in Gainesville
- Gainesville other 2,214 in 2025
- Gainesville theft 1,572 in 2025
- Gainesville assault 1,517 in 2025
- Gainesville burglary 665 in 2025
- Gainesville vandalism 528 in 2025
- Gainesville fraud 445 in 2025
- Gainesville auto theft 301 in 2025
- Gainesville bike theft 164 in 2025
- Gainesville sexual assault 135 in 2025
- Gainesville robbery 95 in 2025
- Gainesville theft from vehicle 37 in 2025
- Gainesville homicide 1 in 2025