City overview
Gainesville
93 neighborhoods covered by the Gainesville police open-data feed. Browse a specific area below or jump into the live app.
Citywide Safety Index
Gainesville (citywide) reports close to the FBI national rate.
persons: 456/100k vs FBI 379.5/100k (+20%)property: 1741/100k vs FBI 1934.1/100k (-10%)
Source: FBI UCR national rate per 100k (2023 revised, per CIUS 2024) · newest report Jul 13, 2026
Compare Gainesville to another city
Pick a city to render its citywide safety card below — both compared to the FBI national average.
Neighborhoods
- Appletree
- Ashton
- Azalea Trails
- Beville Heights
- Black Acres
- Blues Creek
- Breckenridge
- Capri
- Carol Estates South
- Cedar Grove II
- Chatworth Court
- Cherrytree
- Colclough Hills
- Colony Park
- Coventry
- Creekwood
- Debra Heights
- Downtown
- Duckpond
- Durant Estates
- Duval
- Fifth Ave
- Finley Woods
- Forest of the Unicorn
- Forest Ridge
- Foxfire Woods
- Gateway Park
- Golfview
- Grand Oaks
- Greater Northeast Community
- Grove Street
- Hazel Heights
- Hermitage
- Hibiscus Park
- Hidden Lake
- Hidden Oaks
- Highland Court Manor
- Ironwood
- Kensington Park
- Kingswood Court
- Kirkwood
- Lamplighter
- Landmark Woods
- Las Pampas
- Libby Heights
- Lincoln Estates
- Madera
- Madison Park
- Mile Run
- Mill Pond
- Monterey
- Napier Oaks
- North Lincoln Heights
- Northeast Neighbors
- Northwest Estates
- Northwood
- Northwood Oaks
- Northwood Pines
- Oaks Preserve
- Oakview
- P & G Neighborhood
- Palm Grove
- Palmetto Woods
- Pebble Creek
- Phoenix
- Pinderidge
- Pine Park
- Pinebreeze
- Pleasant Street
- Porters
- Rainbow's End
- Rainbows East
- Ridgeview
- Ridgewood
- Sable Chase
- Shadow Lawn Estates
- Sorrento
- Southeast Evergreen Trails
- Springhill
- Springtree
- Stephen Foster
- Suburban Heights
- Sugarfoot
- Sugarhill
- The Garden
- Turkey Creek Forest
- University Park
- Westchester
- Westmoreland Estates
- Willowcroft
- Wimberly Estates
- Wood Creek
- Woodland Terrace
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How to read this: CommunitySafe summarizes publicly published police reports. Scores reflect historical reporting only — not predictions of future risk, and not a substitute for professional safety advice. These scores should not be used as the sole basis for housing, lending, insurance, or hiring decisions — verify each statistic with the cited official source before acting on it. See /methodology for how the index is computed.
About Gainesville safety data
This overview aggregates Gainesville's official police open-data feed across 93 neighborhoods and compares it to the FBI Crime Data Explorer 2023 national rate per 100,000 residents. Gainesville currently carries a citywide Safety Index of C. Gainesville (citywide) reports close to the FBI national rate.
Use the neighborhood list above to drill into a specific area — every area has its own running incident timeline and category breakdown. Safety is local: a citywide grade smooths over real differences between neighborhoods, so we always recommend reading the area you actually care about rather than the headline number. For the full data sourcing, population normalization, and grade thresholds, see our methodology. To compare Gainesville against another metro, use the comparison tool above.