Crime & Safety in Winter Garden
Winter Garden is safer than most U.S. cities by available crime-index measures, though it is not crime-free -- property crime remains more common than violent crime, consistent with national patterns. Figures below are reported at the city level; no neighborhood is singled out as higher- or lower-risk.
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Learn moreViolent Crime: Roughly at the National Average
CrimeGrade.org estimates Winter Garden's violent crime rate at about 389.5 per 100,000 residents, roughly 2% above the national average, implying about a 1-in-257 annual chance of being a victim of violent crime. That is close enough to the national baseline to be read as roughly average rather than notably elevated or reduced.
Property Crime Is More Common Than Violent Crime
Winter Garden's property crime rate is estimated at about 2,064 per 100,000 residents (CrimeGrade.org) -- meaningfully more common than violent crime, which is the typical national pattern rather than something distinctive to Winter Garden.
Overall Safety Ranking
CrimeGrade.org places Winter Garden in the 81st percentile for overall safety nationally, meaning it is estimated to be safer than about 81% of U.S. cities, with an overall crime grade of A-. Ratings vary somewhat by source and methodology, so this figure should be read as directional rather than an exact ranking.
Estimated Cost of Crime
CrimeGrade.org's 2025 estimate puts the total projected cost of crime in Winter Garden at about $8,084,618, or roughly $135 per resident and $409 per household -- a way of translating crime statistics into a rough economic-impact figure, though methodology for this calculation was not detailed in the source.
Key takeaways
- Winter Garden's violent crime rate (about 389.5 per 100,000, CrimeGrade.org) runs close to the national average -- roughly 2% above it.
- Property crime (about 2,064 per 100,000) is more common than violent crime, consistent with national patterns rather than a Winter Garden-specific issue.
- Winter Garden ranks in the 81st percentile for overall safety nationally per CrimeGrade.org, with an overall crime grade of A-.
- These are city-level figures; no specific neighborhood is identified as higher- or lower-crime in this research.
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