Boynton Beach, FL has a D safety grade (38/100) with a violent crime rate of 417 per 100,000, 19% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Boynton Beach, FL Crime Rate & Safety
At 81,473 residents, Boynton Beach 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.
Boynton Beach, FL is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns a D PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 19% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Boynton Beach, FL shows violent crime at 417.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,283 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 19% 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
417.3/100K violent
2283/100K property
+19% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Boynton Beach, FL
Comparable rate records
Boynton Beach's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Florida cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Boynton Beach's 417.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Temple Terrace (417.6), Miami Gardens (414.6), Delray Beach (422.0), Belleview (425.1). 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 654.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 417.3 in 2024 (-36.2%). The highest observed value was 654.5 in 2020 and the lowest 16.3 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Boynton Beach sits mid-pack among comparable Florida cities
At 417.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Boynton Beach ranks 34 of 126 — above 92 of the 125 other Florida cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +116.6% 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 counts dominate Boynton Beach'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.
Boynton Beach's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 16.1 Census sq mi, Boynton Beach logged 115.3 property and 21.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Boynton Beach's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (73% of 2,200 offenses; mix index 5,592).
Violent offenses are 15% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (16.1 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Both rates shifted (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-5.9%
443.4 → 417.3/100K
Property Crime Rate
-6.6%
2445.5 → 2283/100K
Property offenses lead Boynton Beach's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs FL
Property Crime
1,860
2283
1030
Larceny-Theft
1,615
1982.3
-
Burglary
166
203.7
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
79
97
-
Arson
4
4.9
-
Violent Crime
340
417.3
210.3
Aggravated Assault
244
299.5
-
Robbery
63
77.3
-
Rape
30
36.8
-
Murder
3
3.7
-
Boynton Beach 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.
Boynton Beach property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Boynton Beach Police Department
Reporting agency for Boynton Beach NIBRS-participating
Boynton Beach Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Boynton Beach's 2,200 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.
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In 2024, Boynton Beach reported 340 violent crimes and 1,860 property crimes, for a total of 2,200 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Boynton Beach?
From 2023 to 2024, Boynton Beach's violent crime rate decreased by 5.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 6.6%.
What is the most common crime in Boynton Beach?
The most common crime type in Boynton Beach is larceny-theft, accounting for 73.4% of all reported crimes (1,615 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Boynton Beach'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 Boynton Beach, FL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.