Forest Hills, Tampa, FL Violent 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 violent crime in Forest Hills?
Forest Hills grades B- for violent crime, with more of it than the neighborhoods where 81% of Americans live. Assaults make up 94% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. Tampa as a whole grades B for violent crime.
B-
Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 601 of 1,000More violent crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
19% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Forest Hills as a whole, and 81% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Forest Hills scores 601.
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 violent crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its violent crime with the people who spend time there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy downtown or nightlife strip can show red while the homes around it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a solid 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
Most of Forest Hills grades well for violent crime: 65% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and the rest in areas graded C. Violent crime grades across Forest Hills run from A- to C-.
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A or B 65%C 35%
Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Forest Hills has less violent crime than 19 of the 48 neighborhoods in Tampa. It covers much of the Lowry Park Central, Forest Hills, and Seminole Heights areas.
Is violent crime going up in Tampa?
Reported violent crime in Tampa as a whole peaked in 2021 and has fallen 20% since, back near its 2019 level. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 4.1 to 4.4 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7). Violent crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
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Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Tampa. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Tampa
Violent, US
2016
+24%
+4%
2017
+13%
+4%
2018
-1%
+0%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+35%
+4%
2021
+36%
+6%
2022
+23%
+5%
2023
+14%
+2%
2024
+8%
-4%
Violent crime rates and types in Forest Hills
CrimeGrade™ estimates Forest Hills has about 16 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 21% more than the US as a whole and close to Tampa as a whole.
All violent crime
Assaults
Robbery
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Violent crime here includes simple assaults, which the FBI's violent crime rate leaves out.
Assault is the most common violent crime in Forest Hills, about 94% of the total.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a violent crime with the people who spend time in an area, not only the people who live there. 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 violent 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, 44% of aggravated assaults happen at a home, against 53% nationally. Robberies happen most often on streets and sidewalks: 42% of them.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Robbery
Streets and sidewalks (42%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (44%)
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.
Violent crime in Forest Hills and nearby neighborhoods
Forest Hills has less violent 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 violent crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Forest Hills has more violent crime than 67% of them.
Among the traits that tend to go with violent 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 robbery.
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery.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 robbery.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 assault.C (34 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 50% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Tree coverThe share of land under tree canopy where people live. Leafy neighborhoods tend to report less robbery.19% where people liveUS: 21%Higher than for 77% 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 violent crime costs Forest Hills
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Forest Hills about $16 million a year, or $1,561 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $3.4 million, or $333 per resident.
Billed cost of violent crime per resident, per year
How CrimeGrade™ works
The violent crime CrimeGrade™ covers murder, rape, robbery and assault, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each violent crime against the people who spend time in an area, so a busy downtown is graded on its workers and visitors as well as its residents.
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.
