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 FBI UCR + NIBRS
Boynton Beach, FL Crime Rate & Safety
Compiled by PlainCrime, Independent crime-data publisher
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 carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 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.
The verdict
Boynton Beach earns a D safety grade: violent crime runs 19% above the U.S. average, placing it among the highest-crime cities in the country.
D
PlainCrime safety grade
+19%
violent crime vs. U.S. average
19th
percentile of 7,769 U.S. cities
2,283
property crimes per 100K
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.
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
Property crime rate (2024)
2,283/100K↓6.6%vs 2023
Boynton Beach violent crime rate trend
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Violent crime rate (2024)
417.3/100K↓5.9%vs 2023
Year
Coverage
Population
Violent Rate
Property Rate
Total Crimes
2020
Comparable
79,913
654.5
2248.7
2,320
2021
Insufficient reporting
81,384
-
-
-
2022
Comparable
79,551
16.3
64.1
64
2023
Comparable
80,964
443.4
2445.5
2,339
2024
Comparable
81,473
417.3
2283
2,200
How Boynton Beach sits among FL peers
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Reporting Agency
Boynton Beach Police Department NIBRS-participating
Boynton Beach's crime figures on this page originate from Boynton Beach Police Department's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Florida cities closest to Boynton Beach in population. Their populations run from 66,900 to 100,557, against 81,473 here. Or use our
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These Florida cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Boynton Beach's 417.3/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Boynton Beach has a violent crime rate of 417.3 per 100,000 residents and a property crime rate of 2283 per 100,000, based on 2024 FBI UCR data.
Is Boynton Beach, FL safe? ▼
Boynton Beach receives a safety grade of D (Below Average), with a safety score of 38/100. The violent crime rate is 19% above the national average and 98% above the Florida average.
What is the population of Boynton Beach, FL? ▼
The reporting population for Boynton Beach is 81,473 as of 2024.
How many crimes were reported in Boynton Beach? ▼
In 2024, Boynton Beach reported 340 violent crimes and 1,860 property crimes, for a total of 2,200 reported offenses.
How do Boynton Beach's reported offenses compare with its population? ▼
In 2024, Boynton Beach recorded about one reported offense per 37 residents and one reported violent offense per 240 residents. These ratios count reported offenses, not distinct victims, and are not a person's probability of victimization.
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.