The Miami metro area, the ninth-largest in the US, is home to 6.25 million residents; Miami itself is the second-largest city in Florida · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in the Miami area?
Violent crime is high in the Miami area: a B+, with more violent crime than the neighborhoods where 70% of Americans live. Assaults make up 91% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. The city of Miami itself grades B+ for violent crime.
B+
Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 739 of 1,000More violent crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
30% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than the Miami area as a whole, and 70% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. The Miami area scores 739.
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 Miami, FL at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in the Miami area, 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 violent crime in the Miami area
Robberies run high in Allapattah & Model City. In this part of north Miami, they run at more than triple the rate in the rest of Miami.
Where violent crime is lowest and highest in the Miami area
Low violent crime is the norm across the Miami area: 80% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and 9% in areas graded D or F. Violent crime grades across the Miami area run from A+ to F.
80%11%
A or B 80%C 11%D or F 9%
Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Neighborhoods of Miami
1Coral Way, southeastAggravated assaults run at less than half the rate in the rest of Miami.A870
2Olympia Heights, southwestAggravated assaults run at about half the rate in the rest of Miami.A-846
4Flagami, westRobberies run at less than half the rate in the rest of Miami.A-814
5Downtown Miami, eastRobberies run at less than half the rate in the rest of Miami.A-805
6Little Havana & West Flagler, centralRobberies run about 40% higher here than in the rest of Miami.B640
7Wynwood & Little Haiti, northeastRobberies run at more than double the rate in the rest of Miami.C+490
8Allapattah & Model City, northAggravated assaults run at about triple the rate in the rest of Miami.D222
Neighborhood areas of the city of Miami, ranked by violent crime CrimeGrade™; beside each grade is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer). Each one combines several of the smaller areas on the map.
Cities and towns in the Miami metro area with at least 1,000 residents. Ranked by violent crime CrimeGrade™; beside each grade is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer), and the other numbers are residents.
Violent crime rates and types in the Miami area
CrimeGrade™ estimates the Miami area has about 11 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 18% less than the US as a whole and close to Florida.
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 the Miami area, about 91% of the total. Murder and rape are far rarer, but they account for 43% of the cost of violent crime here.
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.
Violent crime in the Miami area and nearby metro areas
The Miami area has the most violent crime of its 10 nearest metro areas.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from the Miami area. Beside each violent crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with metro areas of similar size and density, the Miami area has more violent crime than 54% of them.
Among the traits that tend to go with violent crime, two set the Miami area apart: it has 47% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally, and 8 buses and trains an hour at the evening rush, where most Americans have none nearby. Places like that tend to report more robbery, and it runs high here.
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery.47% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 85% of Americans in metro areas
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for the Miami area: D+ (23 of 100).8 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 71% of Americans in metro areas
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 the Miami area
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs the Miami area about $7.47 billion a year, or $1,195 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $1.57 billion, or $251 per resident.
Billed cost of violent crime per resident, per year
How the cost breaks down
Pain and suffering are about 79% of that full cost.
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$569 million
$91
Rape
$111 million
$18
Robbery
$134 million
$21
Assault
$753 million
$120
Total
$1.57 billion
$251
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. These figures cover the whole Miami metro area. 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.
