Blountstown, FL carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 0% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Blountstown, FL shows violent crime at 351.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,494.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 0% 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
351.6/100K violent
1494.5/100K property
-0% vs U.S.
The verdict
Blountstown earns a C safety grade: violent crime runs 0% below the U.S. average, placing it higher-crime than most U.S. cities.
C
PlainCrime safety grade
-0%
violent crime vs. U.S. average
25th
percentile of 7,769 U.S. cities
1,494.5
property crimes per 100K
Based on 8 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,275. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Blountstown, FL
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Blountstown reported 8 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 2,275. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Comparable rate records
Blountstown's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Florida cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Blountstown's 351.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Key West (352.3), Parker (348.6), Palm Bay (347.2), Altamonte Springs (340.3). 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
Blountstown sits mid-pack among comparable Florida cities
At 351.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Blountstown ranks 39 of 126 — above 87 of the 125 other Florida cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +82.5% 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 67.6% of reported property offenses in Blountstown, against a cohort median of 81.8%. The remainder is burglary (7) and motor vehicle theft (4). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 19.0% of the 42 Part I offenses reported in Blountstown for 2024, against a median of 13.3% across comparable Florida cities — a gap of 5.8 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.
Property counts dominate Blountstown'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.
Based on 8 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,275. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
+46.5%
1020 → 1494.5/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-20.7%
443.5 → 351.6/100K
Property offenses lead Blountstown's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs FL
Property Crime
34
1494.5
1030
Larceny-Theft
23
1011
-
Burglary
7
307.7
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
4
175.8
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
8
351.6
210.3
Aggravated Assault
8
351.6
-
Murder
0
0
-
Rape
0
0
-
Robbery
0
0
-
Blountstown Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Blountstown property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Property crime rate (2024)
1,494.5/100K↑46.5%vs 2023
Blountstown violent crime rate trend
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Violent crime rate (2024)
351.6/100K↓20.7%vs 2023
Year
Coverage
Population
Violent Rate
Property Rate
Total Crimes
2020
Comparable
2,435
0
1848
45
2021
Comparable
2,421
0
0
0
2022
Comparable
2,253
310.7
2130.5
55
2023
Comparable
2,255
443.5
1020
33
2024
Comparable
2,275
351.6
1494.5
42
How Blountstown sits among FL peers
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Reporting Agency
Blountstown Police Department Summary Reporting (SRS)
Blountstown's crime figures on this page originate from Blountstown Police Department's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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 Blountstown in population. Their populations run from 1,675 to 2,755, against 2,275 here. Or use our
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These Florida cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Blountstown's 351.6/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Blountstown has a violent crime rate of 351.6 per 100,000 residents and a property crime rate of 1494.5 per 100,000, based on 2024 FBI UCR data.
Is Blountstown, FL safe? ▼
Blountstown receives a safety grade of C (Average), with a safety score of 52/100. The violent crime rate is 0% below the national average and 67% above the Florida average.
What is the population of Blountstown, FL? ▼
The reporting population for Blountstown is 2,275 as of 2024.
How many crimes were reported in Blountstown? ▼
In 2024, Blountstown reported 8 violent crimes and 34 property crimes, for a total of 42 reported offenses.
How do Blountstown's reported offenses compare with its population? ▼
In 2024, Blountstown recorded about one reported offense per 54 residents and one reported violent offense per 284 residents. These ratios count reported offenses, not distinct victims, and are not a person's probability of victimization.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Blountstown? ▼
From 2023 to 2024, Blountstown's violent crime rate decreased by 20.7%, and the property crime rate increased by 46.5%.
What is the most common crime in Blountstown? ▼
The most common crime type in Blountstown is larceny-theft, accounting for 54.8% of all reported crimes (23 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Blountstown's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Blountstown, FL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.