Crime Rate in Florida (2025)
The FBI-based Crime Index for 39 cities in Florida, plus the statewide average. Scores run 0–100 (higher = safer) and are built from FBI Crime Data Explorer reports for 2025.
Crime Index
Limited city-level coverage: agencies covering only 55% of Florida's large-city population reported city-level detail for 2025 (49% of large cities). The statewide index above uses Florida's full FBI totals; treat the city breakdown as partial — see the methodology.
Crime trend in Florida
Reported crime by offense
Statewide rates per 100,000 residents vs the US average.
Each bar is scaled to the US average for that offense — the dashed line marks 1×. Bars past it run above the national norm; hover a row for detail.
Violent crime
- Florida
- 2.5 /100k · 586 total
- US average
- 4.1 /100k
- Florida
- 21.9 /100k · 5,142 total
- US average
- 35.2 /100k
- Florida
- 27.8 /100k · 6,525 total
- US average
- 47.9 /100k
- Florida
- 155 /100k · 36,320 total
- US average
- 228 /100k
Property crime
- Florida
- 100 /100k · 23,518 total
- US average
- 187 /100k
- Florida
- 739 /100k · 173,293 total
- US average
- 1,099 /100k
- Florida
- 55.3 /100k · 12,981 total
- US average
- 192 /100k
- Florida
- 2.6 /100k · 604 total
- US average
- 9.4 /100k
How Florida compares
Florida against the US average for 2025.
| Metric | Florida | United States |
|---|---|---|
| Crime Index (higher = safer) | 83B | 73C |
| Violent crime /100k | 207 | 315 |
| Property crime /100k | 897 | 1,487 |
| Homicide /100k | 2.5 | 4.1 |
| Total reported /100k | 1,104 | 1,802 |
Grade shown per index band (88–100 = A … 0–29 = F). Rates are reported offenses per 100,000 residents.
Reported crime rate since 2022
Reported crime rate since 2022
All 39 cities in Florida
Ranked safest to most dangerous by Crime Index.
- 1Pembroke PinesA727per 100k0.6homicide
- 2PensacolaA461per 100k5.6homicide
- 3North PortA546per 100k0.0homicide
- 4DoralA944per 100k0.0homicide
- 5MiramarA706per 100k1.4homicide
- 6WellingtonA832per 100k0.0homicide
- 7JupiterA728per 100k0.0homicide
- 8Port St. LucieA752per 100k1.5homicide
- 9Coral SpringsA1,002per 100k1.4homicide
- 10Palm Beach GardensA1,220per 100k3.1homicide
- 11St CloudA804per 100k4.0homicide
- 12PlantationB1,235per 100k1.0homicide
- 13Boca RatonB1,395per 100k1.0homicide
- 14Boynton BeachB1,077per 100k8.4homicide
- 15HialeahB1,541per 100k1.3homicide
- 16Palm BayB1,106per 100k2.7homicide
- 17ClearwaterB1,671per 100k0.9homicide
- 18LargoB1,909per 100k0.0homicide
- 19TampaB1,321per 100k4.0homicide
- 20Winter HavenB1,743per 100k3.2homicide
- 21Delray BeachC2,072per 100k2.8homicide
- 22MelbourneC1,704per 100k1.1homicide
- 23Pinellas ParkC2,531per 100k1.9homicide
- 24Fort MyersC1,506per 100k2.9homicide
- 25LakelandC1,904per 100k3.9homicide
- 26SarasotaC1,804per 100k3.4homicide
- 27BradentonC1,907per 100k5.1homicide
- 28Miami GardensC2,105per 100k9.4homicide
- 29ApopkaC2,049per 100k0.0homicide
- 30HomesteadC1,957per 100k0.0homicide
- 31MiamiC2,598per 100k5.0homicide
- 32KissimmeeC2,069per 100k2.3homicide
- 33West Palm BeachC1,983per 100k8.4homicide
- 34OcalaC2,895per 100k2.8homicide
- 35St. PetersburgC2,513per 100k3.3homicide
- 36SanfordD2,500per 100k8.8homicide
- 37GainesvilleD2,833per 100k2.0homicide
- 38TallahasseeD3,006per 100k9.7homicide
- 39Fort LauderdaleE3,950per 100k6.3homicide
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A high Crime Index score means lower reported crime relative to other US cities — it is not a guarantee of safety. Reported crime is not the same as actual crime. Research on the gap between crime that occurs and crime that gets reported to police — often called the "dark figure" of crime — estimates that roughly 40% of violent crime and about a third of property crime go unreported each year. Every index built on official statistics, including this one, necessarily undercounts real crime. That gap is exactly why homicide — the offense with the smallest dark figure — anchors the calculation instead of a more commonly reported but less reliable category like theft.
Scores on this page reflect FBI-reported data for 2025. See the full methodology →
Limited data coverage: The FBI's 2021 transition to NIBRS-only reporting caused a sharp, temporary drop in nationwide participation, and some large states still lag in agency coverage for the most recent data years. When less than 60% of an area's population is covered by agencies that reported to the FBI for the data year, we flag that area as having limited data coverage, show the note on the page, and de-emphasize it in ranking landers rather than presenting an incomplete picture as if it were a complete one.