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Arrests in Florida

Agencies in Florida reported 311,521 arrests to the FBI in 2025, according to the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer.

Broken down here by the arrestee’s race, sex and age.

Read these figures with these

  • An arrest is an event, not a person. One person arrested three times in a year is three arrests, so these are not counts of individuals and a rate is not the share of a population that was arrested.
  • Race is recorded by the arresting agency, not reported by the person arrested.
  • The FBI publishes no ethnicity field with these arrests, so no Hispanic or Latino figure can be derived from them. Hispanic arrestees are recorded under a race, which is why the population each rate divides by is that race across all origins rather than the non-Hispanic part of it.
  • The FBI’s “Multiple” category is an arresting officer’s classification of one person. The Census Bureau’s “two or more races” is what a person says about themselves. They are not the same population, so that row carries a count and no rate.
  • Reporting to the FBI is voluntary, and the FBI publishes no participating-agency figure with arrest data, so a change in an arrest count cannot be separated from a change in who reported. The size of that is measurable from its own state figures: national arrests rose 8.3% between 2022 and 2023, while NY alone rose 121.8% — 204,565 arrests from one state, against 539,374 nationally. Counts are not comparable across that year.
  • A rate is not published where fewer than 20 arrests lie behind it. That is the convention US federal vital statistics use for an unreliable rate, and it matters most in the smallest groups: nineteen arrests among a few hundred residents produces a figure that one or two arrests would move by a third. The count is always shown.
  • Comparing the composition of arrestees with the composition of a population assumes equal offending and equal likelihood of arrest across groups. This data supports neither assumption, and nothing here implies either.
  • 344 arrests in 2025 carry no race at all — not even “unknown” — so the race rows total slightly less than the arrests recorded.

By race · 2025

Arrests per 100,000 residents of that group in Florida, using Census Bureau estimates for the same year. The FBI’s legacy grouping, “Asian, Native Hawaiian, or Other Pacific Islander”, contains two of the rows below and is left out rather than counted twice.

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Arrests in Florida by race, 2025
RaceArrestsShare of arrests
White194,40762.4%
Black or African American111,42635.8%
Unknown2,2420.7%
Asian2,2250.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native6190.2%
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander6020.2%

By sex · 2025

231,304
Male
2,026 per 100,000 residents
80,217
Female
666 per 100,000 residents

By age · 2025

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Arrests in Florida by age band and sex, 2025
AgeSexArrests
Under 10Female6
Under 10Male38
Under 11Female0
Under 11Male0
10-12Female359
10-12Male784
11-12Female0
11-12Male0
13-14Female1,644
13-14Male3,163
15Female1,140
15Male2,976
16Female1,336
16Male3,427
17Female1,204
17Male3,809
18Female1,364
18Male4,152
19Female1,415
19Male4,173
20Female1,533
20Male4,461
21Female1,622
21Male4,756
22Female1,720
22Male4,694
23Female1,763
23Male4,917
24Female1,976
24Male5,186
25-29Female10,162
25-29Male28,108
30-34Female11,152
30-34Male32,538
35-39Female12,001
35-39Male31,804
40-44Female9,773
40-44Male27,316
45-49Female7,044
45-49Male19,406
50-54Female4,605
50-54Male14,651
55-59Female3,458
55-59Male11,996
60-64Female2,575
60-64Male9,853
65 and overFemale2,365
65 and overMale9,096
Juvenile OtherFemale0
Juvenile OtherMale0
Adult OtherFemale0
Adult OtherMale0

Sources

Compiled automatically from FBI Crime Data Explorer — Arrests and Census Population Estimates — state characteristics by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built

Data retrieved

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The immigration link above is EOIR’s courts, which sit in this state. CBP’s encounters are not by state and will not be: its sectors and field offices are areas of responsibility rather than a geography, and assigning them to states would be a claim the data does not make. Immigration and the border.