Gulfport Casino · Photo: Jennywest1600 · CC BY-SA 3.0Gulfport has more property crime per resident than 81% of U.S. towns
Its letter overall is C (#83 of 128 graded towns in Florida): more crime per resident than 75% of U.S. towns, from crimes its police reported through 2023 to 2025. Still, recorded violent crimes ran at 2.3 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 22.2, against 3.4 and 17.2 in the rest of Florida.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of FL” is every other Florida city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What stands out about safety in Gulfport
Gulfport reports less crime than every graded town next door
Of the 2 Florida towns on Gulfport’s borders, 1 have a Safety Grade: St. Petersburg (D). Bear Creek is an unincorporated community (a census-designated place) with no police department of its own. Neighbors ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Gulfport’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are higher than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its violent rate (2.3) is below the FBI’s national estimate (3.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Gulfport | Rest of Florida | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2.1 | 3.6 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 3.1 | 3.5 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.8 | 3.0 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Gulfport’s police reported 82 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 2.3 per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.4 in the rest of Florida and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Gulfport per 1,000 residents
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And about 2 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Gulfport property | Rest of Florida property | Gulfport violent | Rest of Florida violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 23.9 | 19.2 | 2.1 | 3.6 |
| 2024 | 21.9 | 18.4 | 3.1 | 3.5 |
| 2025 | 20.7 | 14.3 | 1.8 | 3.0 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2023–2025, against the rest of Florida.
262 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
21 violent and 241 property, as reported to the FBI by Gulfport’s police.
Three people died in crashes on Gulfport’s roads in 2019–2023
Gulfport had 3 fatal crashes in five years, in which three people died; 2 were pedestrians.
That is about what is typical for Florida towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (11.0 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Gulfport’s size would see about 6 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Gulfport’s own rate (5.1) is context, not a ranking.
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
Gulfport and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gulfport | C | 2.3 | 22.2 |
| Bear Creek | — | — | — |
| St. Petersburg | D | 5.6 | 23.8 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Bear Creek is an unincorporated community (a census-designated place) with no police department of its own.
Florida towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gulfport | C | 2.3 | 22.2 |
| Satellite Beach | A− | 0.7 | 5.3 |
| Lighthouse Point | B− | 0.7 | 14.2 |
| Miami Shores | C− | 1.9 | 32.2 |
| Brooksville | D | 5.2 | 23.0 |
| Palatka | D | 4.3 | 32.7 |
The five graded Florida towns closest to Gulfport’s population (11,404), by grade.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- One number for all of Gulfport. A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Gulfport’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (11,615 in 2025); our figure for Gulfport is 11,404 (2025 Census estimate).
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in Gulfport
Is Gulfport, FL safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Gulfport reports more crime per resident than 75% of U.S. towns, a C Safety Grade and #83 of 128 in Florida. Its police reported 2.3 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.4 in the rest of Florida and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Gulfport?
2.3 violent and 22.2 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Florida reports 3.4 and 17.2; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Is Gulfport safer than St. Petersburg?
St. Petersburg reports more crime per resident than Gulfport: St. Petersburg grades D for safety and Gulfport C. St. Petersburg’s police reported 5.6 violent and 23.8 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Gulfport?
Gulfport’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Gulfport”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.