Forest Hills, Tampa, FL Property Crime Rates and Maps
Forest Hills is a neighborhood of 10,100 residents in Tampa, about 7 miles north of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Forest Hills?
Property crime in Forest Hills sits near the national middle: an A-, with more property crime than the neighborhoods where 56% of Americans live. Theft makes up 62% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades A-, and vehicle theft grades A. Tampa as a whole grades A for property crime.
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Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 788 of 1,000About as much property crime as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
44% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Forest Hills as a whole, and 56% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Forest Hills scores 788.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more property crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its property crime with the homes, parked cars and people there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy shopping center can show red while the homes beside it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a strong connection. Compare high speed internet in Forest Hills, Tampa, FL at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Forest Hills in Tampa, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
How Forest Hills compares within Tampa
Every part of Forest Hills where people live grades A or B for property crime on the national scale. Property crime grades across Forest Hills run from A to B+.
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Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Forest Hills has less property crime than 20 of the 48 neighborhoods in Tampa. It covers much of the Lowry Park Central, Forest Hills, and Seminole Heights areas.
Is property crime going up in Tampa?
Reported property crime in Tampa as a whole has fallen 11% since 2019. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 16 to 14 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime fell 13%.
Property crime, change since 2019
TampaUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Tampa. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Tampa
Property, US
2016
+26%
+15%
2017
+5%
+12%
2018
+2%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-12%
-8%
2021
-3%
-10%
2022
+4%
-6%
2023
+1%
-7%
2024
-11%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in Forest Hills
CrimeGrade™ estimates Forest Hills has about 20 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 15% less than the US as a whole and close to Tampa as a whole.
All property crime
Burglary
Vehicle theft
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Property crime here includes vandalism, which the FBI's property crime rate leaves out.
Theft is the most common property crime in Forest Hills, about 62% of the total, followed by vandalism and burglary.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a property crime with what it affects: homes for burglary and arson, parked cars for vehicle theft, people and parking for theft, homes and businesses for vandalism. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Where and when property crime happens in Tampa
The Tampa Police Department polices Forest Hills; these figures cover Tampa as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Tampa as a whole, 61% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Car thefts happen most often at homes: 37% of them, against 33% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (61%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Homes (37%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Homes (44%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (46%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times; they are over one in five for burglary, car theft, theft from cars, vandalism, robbery, aggravated assault.
Property crime in Forest Hills and nearby neighborhoods
Forest Hills has less property crime than 8 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods; only Carrollwood and Temple Park have less.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Forest Hills. Beside each property crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Forest Hills is safer than 65% of them.
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Forest Hills apart: it has 7% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally, and 65 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole. Places where few residents live in dense blocks tend to report less car theft, yet car theft runs higher here than that would suggest.
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more car theft.7% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 93% of residents of US city neighborhoods
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft.65 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 78% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more theft.C (34 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 50% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.4.2% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 75% of residents of US city neighborhoods
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What property crime costs Forest Hills
Property crime costs Forest Hills about $1.4 million a year, or $137 per resident and about $381 per household: the value of what is stolen or damaged, plus the police, courts and prisons that respond.
Cost of property crime per resident, per year
How CrimeGrade™ works
The property crime CrimeGrade™ covers burglary, theft, car theft, arson and vandalism, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each property crime against what it affects: homes for burglary and arson, parked cars for car theft, and the people and parking around stores for theft.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
Published research on what crime costs victims and communities
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
