Belle Glade, FL has a F safety grade (7/100) with a violent crime rate of 1327 per 100,000, 277% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Belle Glade (16,880 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then FL and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Belle Glade, FL is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 277% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Belle Glade, FL shows violent crime at 1,327 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,660 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 277% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 1327.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Belle Glade ranks 2 of 126 — above 124 of the 125 other Florida cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +588.6% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 33.3% of the 673 Part I offenses reported in Belle Glade for 2024, against a median of 13.3% across comparable Florida cities — a gap of 20.0 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Belle Glade's 1327.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Eatonville (1323.9), Pahokee (1131.7), Cocoa (1082.3), South Bay (1001.8). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 908.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1327.0 in 2024 (+46.0%). The highest observed value was 1327.0 in 2024 and the lowest 908.8 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Belle Glade'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.
Across 7 Census sq mi, Belle Glade logged 64.1 property and 32 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Belle Glade leans on larceny-theft at 54% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,869.
Violent offenses are 33% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Belle Glade offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (7 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 | 449 | 2660 |
| Larceny-Theft | 364 | 2156.4 |
| Burglary | 57 | 337.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 28 | 165.9 |
| Arson | 2 | 11.8 |
| Violent Crime | 224 | 1327 |
| Aggravated Assault | 196 | 1161.1 |
| Robbery | 15 | 88.9 |
| Murder | 7 | 41.5 |
| Rape | 6 | 35.5 |
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 · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 20,357 | 908.8 | 2618.3 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 20,281 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 16,723 | 1309.6 | 2433.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 16,807 | 1118.6 | 3105.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 16,880 | 1327 | 2660 |
Belle Glade Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Belle Glade's 673 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Florida cities closest to Belle Glade in population. Their populations run from 16,362 to 17,963, against 16,880 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Belle Glade sits at 1,327/100K violent (grade F); the Florida cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Belle Glade at 1,327/100K violent and 2,660/100K property - matched below outside Florida (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
1,327/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,660/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Belle Glade reported 224 violent crimes and 449 property crimes, for a total of 673 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Belle Glade's violent crime rate increased by 18.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 14.4%.
The most common crime type in Belle Glade is larceny-theft, accounting for 54.1% of all reported crimes (364 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Belle Glade 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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Belle Glade's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Belle Glade, FL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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