Altamonte Springs, FL has a C safety grade (46/100) with a violent crime rate of 340 per 100,000, 3% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Altamonte Springs, FL Crime Rate & Safety
Altamonte Springs (44,956 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then FL and national benchmarks.
Altamonte Springs, FL is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 3% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Altamonte Springs, FL shows violent crime at 340.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,311.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 3% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
C safety grade
340.3/100K violent
2311.1/100K property
-3% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Altamonte Springs, FL
Comparable rate records
Altamonte Springs's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Florida cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Altamonte Springs's 340.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Palm Bay (347.2), Parker (348.6), Blountstown (351.6), Key West (352.3). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
Position in the state cohort
Altamonte Springs sits mid-pack among comparable Florida cities
At 340.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Altamonte Springs ranks 42 of 126 — above 84 of the 125 other Florida cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +76.6% against the cohort median of 192.7. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 315.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 340.3 in 2024 (+8.0%). The highest observed value was 394.8 in 2022 and the lowest 315.0 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Altamonte Springs's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Altamonte Springs's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 9.1 Census sq mi, Altamonte Springs logged 113.9 property and 16.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Altamonte Springs's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (76% of 1,192 offenses; mix index 6,003).
Violent offenses are only 13% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (9.1 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Both rates shifted (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+2.6%
331.7 → 340.3/100K
Property Crime Rate
+2.3%
2259.9 → 2311.1/100K
Property offenses lead Altamonte Springs's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs FL
Property Crime
1,039
2311.1
1030
Larceny-Theft
911
2026.4
-
Burglary
75
166.8
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
53
117.9
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
153
340.3
210.3
Aggravated Assault
118
262.5
-
Robbery
23
51.2
-
Rape
12
26.7
-
Murder
0
0
-
Altamonte Springs Crime Trend (2020-2024)
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Altamonte Springs property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averagesRead the chart as a list
Altamonte Springs: 340 violent, 2311 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Greenacres City: 245 violent, 1346 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Cutler Bay: 148 violent, 1363 property per 100,000 (grade B)
North Miami Beach: 583 violent, 2913 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Oviedo: 106 violent, 583 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Lake Worth: 731 violent, 2657 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Haines City: 132 violent, 794 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Titusville: 518 violent, 1281 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Royal Palm Beach: 159 violent, 1478 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Altamonte Springs Police Department
Reporting agency for Altamonte Springs Summary Reporting (SRS)
Altamonte Springs Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Altamonte Springs's 1,192 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
This agency reports via the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS): aggregate monthly offense counts rather than incident-level detail.
Similar-Size Cities in Florida
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Florida cities closest to Altamonte Springs in population. Their populations run from 39,654 to 49,970, against 44,956 here. Or use our
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How many crimes were reported in Altamonte Springs?
In 2024, Altamonte Springs reported 153 violent crimes and 1,039 property crimes, for a total of 1,192 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Altamonte Springs?
From 2023 to 2024, Altamonte Springs's violent crime rate increased by 2.6%, and the property crime rate increased by 2.3%.
What is the most common crime in Altamonte Springs?
The most common crime type in Altamonte Springs is larceny-theft, accounting for 76.4% of all reported crimes (911 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Altamonte Springs figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Altamonte Springs, FL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.