Crime rates for Bowling Green, FL

Bowling Green has an overall crime rate of 32 per 1,000 residents, making the crime rate here near the average for all cities and towns of all sizes in America. According to our analysis of FBI crime data, your chance of becoming a victim of crime in Bowling Green is 1 in 32. How does Bowling Green fare compared to other communities in Florida of all population sizes? Bowling Green's crime rate is lower than approximately 70% of Florida communities.

However, when you compare Bowling Green to other cities of similar population, the Bowling Green crime rate (violent and property crimes combined) is quite a bit higher than average. Regardless of how Bowling Green does relative to all communities in America of all sizes, when NeighborhoodScout compared it to communities of similar population size, its crime rate per thousand residents stands out as higher than most.

The crime data that NeighborhoodScout used for this analysis are the seven offenses from the uniform crime reports, collected by the FBI from 17,000 local law enforcement agencies, and include both violent and property crimes, combined.

Now let us turn to take a look at how Bowling Green does for violent crimes specifically, and then how it does for property crimes. This is important because the overall crime rate can be further illuminated by understanding if violent crime or property crimes (or both) are the major contributors to the general rate of crime in Bowling Green.

From our analysis, we discovered that violent crime in Bowling Green occurs at a rate higher than in most communities of all population sizes in America. The chance that a person will become a victim of a violent crime in Bowling Green – such as armed robbery, aggravated assault, rape or murder – is 1 in 169. This equates to a rate of 6 per one thousand inhabitants.

Moreover, the rate of property crime in Bowling Green – burglary, larceny ($50 or more), grand theft auto, and arson – is 26 per 1,000 residents. This is about average for all cities and towns in America of all population sizes.