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Crime Index: (100 is Safest)

Crime rates for Palm Beach, FL

Safest Palm Beach Neighborhoods

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1 Ocean Blvd / Lake Ave
2 Lake Way / Country Clu...
3 Town Center
4 South Palm Beach

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Palm Beach zip codes33480

POPULATION
10,374

Palm Beach Crime Rates

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CRIME INDEX

50

100 is safest


This city is safer than 50% of the cities in the US.

city Annual Crimes

VIOLENT PROPERTY TOTAL
5 208 213
annual crimes per 1,000 residents
0.48 20.05 20.53




  • Violent Crime Comparison per 1,000 residents

  • NATIONAL MEDIAN
  • 4.7
  • MY CHANCES OF BECOMING A VICTIM
  • in Palm Beach
    1 in 2075
  • in Florida
    1 in 126
0.48
7.88
Palm Beach Florida
Palm Beach violent crimes
Population: 10,374
MURDER RAPE ROBBERY ASSAULT
REPORTED TOTAL 0 1 4 0
RATE PER 1,000 0.00 0.10 0.39 0.00
United States violent crimes
Population: 296,410,404
MURDER RAPE ROBBERY ASSAULT
REPORTED TOTAL 16,692 93,934 417,122 862,947
RATE PER 1,000 0.06 0.32 1.41 2.91
  • Property Crime Rate Comparison per 1,000 residents

  • NATIONAL MEDIAN
  • 34.3
  • MY CHANCES OF BECOMING A VICTIM
  • in Palm Beach
    1 in 50
  • in Florida
    1 in 22
20.05
44.61
Palm Beach Florida
Palm Beach property crimes
Population: 10,374
BURGLARY THEFT MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
REPORTED TOTAL 31 164 13
RATE PER 1,000 2.99 15.81 1.25
United States property crimes
Population: 296,410,404
BURGLARY THEFT MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
REPORTED TOTAL 2,154,126 6,776,807 1,235,226
RATE PER 1,000 7.27 22.86 4.17
  • Crimes Per Square Mile

28
91
Palm Beach Florida
  • NATIONAL MEDIAN
  • 49.6


About Palm Beach crime rates

Palm Beach has an overall crime rate of 21 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 Palm Beach is 1 in 49. How does Palm Beach fare compared to other communities in Florida of all population sizes? Palm Beach's crime rate is lower than approximately 90% of Florida communities.

How does the crime rate in Palm Beach compare to similar sized town across America? When NeighborhoodScout compared Palm Beach with other communities its size, we found that the crime rate was near the average for all other communities of similar size. So, whether Palm Beach's crime rate is high or low compared to all places in the US, when we control for population size and compare it to places that are similar in size, it is near the middle of the pack in crime rate – not much more or less dangerous, and about what we would expect from the statistics.

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 Palm Beach 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 Palm Beach.

For Palm Beach, NeighborhoodScout found that the violent crime rate is well below the national average for all communities of all population sizes. Violent crimes such as assault, rape, murder and armed robbery happen less often in Palm Beach than in most of America. One's chance of becoming a victim of a violent crime here is one in 2075, which is a violent crime rate of 0 per one thousand inhabitants.

Moreover, the rate of property crime in Palm Beach – burglary, larceny ($50 or more), grand theft auto, and arson – is 20 per 1,000 residents. This is about average for all cities and towns in America of all population sizes.

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