Boca Raton, FL has a B safety grade (68/100) with a violent crime rate of 171 per 100,000, 51% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Boca Raton, FL Crime Rate & Safety
At 100,557 residents, Boca Raton 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.
Boca Raton, FL is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 51% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Boca Raton, FL shows violent crime at 171 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,676.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 51% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
B safety grade
171/100K violent
1676.7/100K property
-51% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Boca Raton, FL
Comparable rate records
Boca Raton's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Florida cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Boca Raton's 171.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Palm Beach (172.7), Belleair Bluffs (175.7), Aventura (164.4), Atlantic Beach (160.6). 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 202.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 171.0 in 2024 (-15.7%). The highest observed value was 202.8 in 2020 and the lowest 171.0 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 9.3% of the 1,858 Part I offenses reported in Boca Raton for 2024, against a median of 13.5% across comparable Florida cities — a gap of 4.2 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.
Position in the state cohort
Boca Raton sits mid-pack among comparable Florida cities
At 171.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Boca Raton ranks 70 of 126 — above 56 of the 125 other Florida cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -16.3% against the cohort median of 204.3. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property counts dominate Boca Raton'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.
Boca Raton's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 29.2 Census sq mi, Boca Raton logged 57.8 property and 5.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Boca Raton's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (77% of 1,858 offenses; mix index 6,051).
Violent offenses are only 9% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (29.2 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
-13.3%
1934.7 → 1676.7/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+0%
171 → 171/100K
Property offenses lead Boca Raton's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs FL
Property Crime
1,686
1676.7
1030
Larceny-Theft
1,429
1421.1
-
Burglary
156
155.1
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
101
100.4
-
Arson
1
1
-
Violent Crime
172
171
210.3
Aggravated Assault
100
99.4
-
Rape
36
35.8
-
Robbery
34
33.8
-
Murder
2
2
-
Boca Raton 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.
Boca Raton 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
Boca Raton: 171 violent, 1677 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Plantation: 210 violent, 2273 property per 100,000 (grade C)
North Port: 94 violent, 781 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Miami Gardens: 415 violent, 2430 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Kissimmee: 492 violent, 1895 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Boynton Beach: 417 violent, 2283 property per 100,000 (grade D)
West Palm Beach: 576 violent, 2138 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Ocala: 500 violent, 3049 property per 100,000 (grade F)
St. Cloud: 189 violent, 758 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Boca Raton Police Department
Reporting agency for Boca Raton NIBRS-participating
Boca Raton Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Boca Raton's 1,858 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.
Similar-Size Cities in Florida
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In 2024, Boca Raton reported 172 violent crimes and 1,686 property crimes, for a total of 1,858 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Boca Raton?
From 2023 to 2024, Boca Raton's violent crime rate increased by 0%, and the property crime rate decreased by 13.3%.
What is the most common crime in Boca Raton?
The most common crime type in Boca Raton is larceny-theft, accounting for 76.9% of all reported crimes (1,429 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Boca Raton'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 Boca Raton, FL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.