Miami · Methods & sources
Know what you’re looking at.
The open-data layer used here has 2025 and a partial 2026, not a ten-year history.
01 · Reading the timeline
One full year, plus year-to-date.
On the collection date the City of Miami crimes layer contained 2025 and 2026. 2026 is year-to-date, through 2026-10-01. Years before 2025 are absent and are not filled from another source.
Assault is NIBRS 13A and 13B. Auto theft, burglary, and robbery use codes 240, 220, and 120. Other larceny stays out.
02 · Scope
4 local indicators.
These are selected Miami categories from a short extract, not a ten-year series and not all recorded crime.
- Assault
- Aggravated assault and simple assault (NIBRS 13A and 13B).
- Auto Theft
- Motor vehicle theft (NIBRS 240).
- Burglary
- Burglary (NIBRS 220).
- Robbery
- Robbery (NIBRS 120).
Hate-crime and money-laundering sources have not been added for Miami. Their views explain that coverage gap. The indicators above cannot stand in for either subject.
03 · Place & population
Police neighbourhoods for a short series.
The map uses 13 police neighbourhoods. Brickell in the crime rows joins the boundary named Brickell/Roads. Streets and place labels come from a locally hosted Protomaps/OpenStreetMap snapshot.
0.33% of the full-year indicator records were not placed in an area (25 reports). They remain in the city total.
The 2025 citywide rate uses the Census Bureau estimate for Miami city. Neighbourhood rates use a fixed 2020 Census block-group allocation.
04 · Source records
Follow the numbers.
Police data: City of Miami. Population: U.S. Census Bureau, a United States government work. This page does not invent the missing earlier years.
About this data
How to read these figures
- What does “crime” mean for Miami?
- Crime by neighbourhood means the indicators City of Miami Police Department publishes for Miami (2025). They are reported incident or offence counts, not arrests, charges, or a safety score. The same heading in another city is not the same offence.
- Where do the numbers come from?
- Police figures come from City of Miami Police Department. Area boundaries come from City of Miami · police neighbourhoods. Rates, when a denominator exists, use U.S. Census Bureau · population and are shown per 10,000 residents. A missing year, indicator, or boundary stays missing.
- How often is this updated?
- The site is updated periodically, with no fixed public schedule and no live feed. Comparable charts use full years. A year-to-date control, when the page has one, labels the partial year separately.
- What does this not show?
- Drug offences and overdose deaths are separate series, not part of these neighbourhoods. There is no single cross-city crime index. Counting rules and source links are on the Miami about page.
Source reuse
Licences & attribution.
Crimes (Public)
Police records: City of Miami. Upstream item notice: Copyright 2025 Esri.
Original source ↗ · Apache License 2.0, as declared on the City-hosted item ↗
Modified by Crime Pulse: selected NIBRS offences, grouped by report year and police neighbourhood; raw event locations are omitted.
A copy of Apache License 2.0 accompanies this package at data/licences/Apache-2.0.txt and /data/notices/Apache-2.0.txt. Supplied without warranties; no endorsement.
Police Neighborhoods
© 2024 City of Miami, Department of Innovation and Technology, GIS Team. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Original source ↗ · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International ↗
Modified by Crime Pulse: Brickell joins Brickell/Roads; polygons are simplified and used to allocate 2020 Census block-group population.
Supplied without warranties; no endorsement.
Terms reviewed 2026-09-29. Download source notices. These records cover crime data and reporting-area boundaries; population and street-map notices remain separate.