Apopka, FL has a D safety grade (37/100) with a violent crime rate of 431 per 100,000, 22% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Apopka, FL Crime Rate & Safety
At 60,583 residents, Apopka is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against FL and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Apopka, FL is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns a D PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 22% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Apopka, FL shows violent crime at 430.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,317.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 22% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
D safety grade
430.8/100K violent
2317.5/100K property
+22% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Apopka, FL
Comparable rate records
Apopka's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Florida cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Apopka's 430.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Brooksville (426.3), Belleview (425.1), Delray Beach (422.0), Temple Terrace (417.6). 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
Apopka reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Florida cities
At 430.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Apopka ranks 29 of 126 — above 97 of the 125 other Florida cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +123.6% 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.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 68.9% of reported property offenses in Apopka, against a cohort median of 81.8%. The remainder is burglary (288) and motor vehicle theft (148). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 450.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 430.8 in 2024 (-4.3%). The highest observed value was 557.7 in 2022 and the lowest 419.9 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Apopka'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Apopka's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 35.2 Census sq mi, Apopka logged 39.9 property and 7.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Apopka leans on larceny-theft at 58% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,904.
Violent offenses are 16% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (35.2 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-16.2%
2765.7 → 2317.5/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+2.6%
419.9 → 430.8/100K
Property offenses lead Apopka's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs FL
Property Crime
1,404
2317.5
1030
Larceny-Theft
968
1597.8
-
Burglary
288
475.4
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
148
244.3
-
Arson
4
6.6
-
Violent Crime
261
430.8
210.3
Aggravated Assault
196
323.5
-
Robbery
37
61.1
-
Rape
27
44.6
-
Murder
1
1.7
-
Apopka 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.
Apopka property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell 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
Apopka: 431 violent, 2318 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Wellington: 130 violent, 795 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Winter Haven: 236 violent, 1549 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Sarasota: 549 violent, 1616 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Bradenton: 449 violent, 1866 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Sanford: 543 violent, 2253 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Pinellas Park: 234 violent, 2206 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Delray Beach: 422 violent, 2631 property per 100,000 (grade D)
St. Cloud: 189 violent, 758 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Apopka Police Department
Reporting agency for Apopka Summary Reporting (SRS)
Apopka Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Apopka's 1,665 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
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In 2024, Apopka reported 261 violent crimes and 1,404 property crimes, for a total of 1,665 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Apopka?
From 2023 to 2024, Apopka's violent crime rate increased by 2.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 16.2%.
What is the most common crime in Apopka?
The most common crime type in Apopka is larceny-theft, accounting for 58.1% of all reported crimes (968 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Apopka's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Apopka, FL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.