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Florida Cities With The Highest Violent-Crime Pressure

Decision-support ranking comparing Florida cities by current violent crime per 1,000 using the currently published coarse crime context, then routing readers into each city brief for tract context and caveats.

Cities ranked
69
Supported Florida cities with tract-backed crime context.
Leaderboard

Current order from the latest data

Ranked rows are precomputed and served as static HTML from R2.

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1 Florida City
Violent Crime has increased 18% since 2023.
17.1 / 1k
2 Cocoa
Violent Crime has increased 48% since 2023.
9.5 / 1k
3 Gainesville
Violent Crime moved up by 6.4 / 1k from 0.2 / 1k in 2022 to 6.6 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage.
6.6 / 1k
4 Tallahassee
Violent Crime has increased 70% since 2022.
5.6 / 1k
5 North Miami Beach
Violent Crime has declined 2% since 2023.
5.3 / 1k
6 West Palm Beach
Violent Crime has declined 12% since 2023.
5.3 / 1k
7 Sarasota
Violent Crime does not yet have a long enough history to describe a full trend.
4.9 / 1k
8 Ocala
Violent Crime has increased 47% since 2022.
4.7 / 1k
9 Kissimmee
Violent Crime has increased 18% since 2022.
4.6 / 1k
10 Titusville
Violent Crime does not yet have a long enough history to describe a full trend.
4.6 / 1k
11 Miami
Violent Crime has increased 126% since 2022.
4.3 / 1k
12 Bradenton
Violent Crime has increased 2% since 2022.
4.1 / 1k
13 Delray Beach
Violent Crime does not yet have a long enough history to describe a full trend.
4.1 / 1k
14 Leesburg
Violent Crime has increased 95% since 2022.
3.9 / 1k
15 Tampa
Violent Crime has declined 9% since 2022.
3.9 / 1k
16 Boynton Beach
Violent Crime has declined 12% since 2023.
3.8 / 1k
17 Brooksville
Violent Crime has declined 28% since 2022.
3.8 / 1k
18 Defuniak Springs
Violent Crime moved up by 3.5 / 1k from 0.0 / 1k in 2023 to 3.5 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage.
3.5 / 1k
19 Miami Gardens
Violent Crime has increased 169% since 2023.
3.5 / 1k
20 Key West
Violent Crime has been relatively flat over the tracked period.
3.2 / 1k
21 Palm Bay
Violent Crime has declined 3% since 2023.
3.1 / 1k
22 Palatka
Violent Crime has declined 43% since 2022.
2.8 / 1k
23 Gulfport
Violent Crime has increased 133% since 2022.
2.8 / 1k
24 Stuart
Violent Crime has increased 59% since 2023.
2.7 / 1k
25 Flagler Beach
Violent Crime does not yet have a long enough history to describe a full trend.
2.3 / 1k
Research notes

How to read this ranking

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What this ranking means

This page is useful for a current statewide pressure screen. It compares supported Florida cities by aggregate violent-crime rate before you open the deeper city briefs. Outside Colorado, this remains statewide fallback context rather than local incident-feed depth.

Research note

What this ranking can miss

A current city rate does not tell you whether conditions are improving, how concentrated the pressure is, or which neighborhoods are driving it. Open the city brief and neighborhood pages next.