Arcadia, FL has a D safety grade (37/100) with a violent crime rate of 513 per 100,000, 46% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Arcadia is a small municipal reporter (7,986 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with FL and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Arcadia, FL is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns a D PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 46% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Arcadia, FL shows violent crime at 513.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,364.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 46% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Arcadia's 513.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Titusville (518.3), Ocala (499.7), Bartow (491.7), Kissimmee (491.7). 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
At 513.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Arcadia ranks 21 of 126 — above 105 of the 125 other Florida cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +166.4% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 27.3% of the 150 Part I offenses reported in Arcadia for 2024, against a median of 13.3% across comparable Florida cities — a gap of 14.1 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 583.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 513.4 in 2024 (-12.1%). The highest observed value was 583.9 in 2020 and the lowest 421.9 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 73.4% of reported property offenses in Arcadia, against a cohort median of 81.8%. The remainder is burglary (28) and motor vehicle theft (1). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Arcadia'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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 4.5 Census sq mi, Arcadia logged 24.5 property and 9.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Arcadia leans on larceny-theft at 53% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,547.
Violent offenses are 27% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Arcadia offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4.5 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 109 | 1364.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 80 | 1001.8 |
| Burglary | 28 | 350.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1 | 12.5 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 41 | 513.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 27 | 338.1 |
| Murder | 5 | 62.6 |
| Rape | 5 | 62.6 |
| Robbery | 4 | 50.1 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 8,392 | 583.9 | 1155.9 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 8,523 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 7,588 | 540.3 | 4876.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 7,822 | 421.9 | 1048.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 7,986 | 513.4 | 1364.9 |
Arcadia Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Arcadia's 150 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Florida cities closest to Arcadia in population. Their populations run from 7,053 to 8,959, against 7,986 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Arcadia sits at 513.4/100K violent (grade D); the Florida cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Arcadia reported 41 violent crimes and 109 property crimes, for a total of 150 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Arcadia's violent crime rate increased by 21.7%, and the property crime rate increased by 30.2%.
The most common crime type in Arcadia is larceny-theft, accounting for 53.3% of all reported crimes (80 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Arcadia is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Arcadia's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Arcadia, FL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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