Miami Gardens is a city of 98,300 in Miami-Dade County · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Miami Gardens?
Property crime is high in Miami Gardens: a B-, with more property crime than the neighborhoods where 77% of Americans live. Theft makes up 64% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades A-, and vehicle theft grades C+.
B-
Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 550 of 1,000More property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
23% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Miami Gardens as a whole, and 77% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Miami Gardens scores 550.
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 Miami Gardens, FL at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Miami Gardens, 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
What stands out about property crime in Miami Gardens
Car thefts happen at homes far more often than nationally. In Miami Gardens, 73% of reported car thefts happen at homes, against 33% nationally.
Where property crime is lowest and highest in Miami Gardens
Areas graded C for property crime are home to 67% of residents in Miami Gardens; 23% live in areas graded A or B and 10% in areas graded D or F. Property crime grades across Miami Gardens run from B+ to F.
23%67%10%
A or B 23%C 67%D or F 10%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Is property crime going up in Miami Gardens?
Reported property crime in Miami Gardens has fallen 41% since 2019. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 39 to 23 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). Property crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Property crime, change since 2019
Miami GardensUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police department that serves Miami Gardens. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Miami Gardens
Property, US
2016
-16%
+15%
2017
-15%
+12%
2018
+4%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-36%
-8%
2021
-40%
-10%
2022
-40%
-6%
2023
-37%
-7%
2024
-41%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in Miami Gardens
CrimeGrade™ estimates Miami Gardens has about 29 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 22% more than the US as a whole and 55% more than Florida.
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 Miami Gardens, about 64% of the total, followed by vandalism and vehicle theft.
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 Miami Gardens
Miami Gardens has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
In Miami Gardens, 69% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (69%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Car theft
Homes (73%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Homes (59%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (64%)
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.
Property crime in Miami Gardens and nearby cities
Miami Gardens has less property crime than 6 of its 10 nearest cities.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Miami Gardens. Beside each property crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with cities of similar size and density, Miami Gardens has more property crime than 92% of them.
Night lighting, transit and walkability in Miami Gardens
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Miami Gardens apart: it has 15 buses and trains an hour at the evening rush, where most Americans have none nearby, and 0.9 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft, and it runs high here.
Lit at nightSatellite images show which neighborhoods are lit at night, a sign of busy streets and businesses. Brightly lit places tend to report more theft and vandalism.100% where people liveUS: 78%Higher than for 92% of US city residents
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Miami Gardens: C- (29 of 100).15 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 89% of US city residents
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. 75% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D+ (22 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 65% of US city residents
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Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.0.9 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Lower than for 81% of US city residents
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more car theft.38% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 74% of US city residents
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.4.1% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 73% of US city residents
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 Miami Gardens
Property crime costs Miami Gardens about $20 million a year, or $205 per resident and about $669 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 the cost breaks down
Pain and suffering add little to the cost of property crime, so this is close to its full cost.
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Burglary
$1.2 million
$12
Theft
$9.5 million
$96
Vehicle theft
$5.8 million
$59
Arson
$160,000
$2
Vandalism
$3.5 million
$36
Total
$20 million
$205
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.
