This webpage contains crime data for Polk County, Florida. You can look at the breakdown of crime by type, changes to crime rates over time, and see how Polk County compares to similar locations. If you are interested in seeing public records links for Polk County, Florida, you can click the Public Records tab at the top.
Between 1999 and 2008 there were 189,499 total crimes reported in Polk County, Florida (20,091 of them violent). Of the 18,950 crimes that transpire each year in Polk County, just about one half take place less than a mile from home. On average, someone is a victim of a crime in Polk County, Florida every 27 minutes. This includes 156 murders, 1,445 rapes, and over one hundred and twenty-six thousand thefts (including 13,193 automobile thefts).
Throughout the last 10 years, crime data were available in Polk County, Florida for all 10 years. Over that period of time, reported crime in Polk County has climbed by 53 per-cent. In the course of that same period, violent crime rose by 61 per-cent. Taken as a whole, the crime rates are a sign of a rapid worsening in crime over the last 10 years in Polk County. If the current trend continues, predicted crime numbers could hit over twenty-nine thousand for Polk County, Florida in 2009.
Polk County, Florida law enforcement agencies report their statistics to the FBI UCR program. The data reported for Polk County conform to the FBI data quality guidelines. For more information, and a description of the statistical methods and data algorithms used by RecordsPedia, please visit our methodology section.