Brooksville, FL is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 21% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Brooksville, FL shows violent crime at 426.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,012.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 21% above 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
426.3/100K violent
2012.7/100K property
+21% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Brooksville, FL
Comparable rate records
Brooksville's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Florida cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Brooksville's 426.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Belleview (425.1), Delray Beach (422.0), Apopka (430.8), Temple Terrace (417.6). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Brooksville reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Florida cities
At 426.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Brooksville ranks 30 of 126 — above 96 of the 125 other Florida cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +121.2% 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 make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 17.5% of the 246 Part I offenses reported in Brooksville for 2024, against a median of 13.3% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 473.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 426.3 in 2024 (-9.9%). The highest observed value was 626.3 in 2021 and the lowest 426.3 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Brooksville'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.
Brooksville's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 11.2 Census sq mi, Brooksville logged 18.1 property and 3.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Brooksville's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (72% of 246 offenses; mix index 5,480).
Violent offenses are 17% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (11.2 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
-39.4%
3323.5 → 2012.7/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-21.1%
540.3 → 426.3/100K
Property offenses lead Brooksville's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs FL
Property Crime
203
2012.7
1030
Larceny-Theft
178
1764.8
-
Burglary
16
158.6
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
9
89.2
-
Arson
2
19.8
-
Violent Crime
43
426.3
210.3
Aggravated Assault
33
327.2
-
Rape
5
49.6
-
Robbery
5
49.6
-
Murder
0
0
-
Brooksville Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Brooksville property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averagesRead the chart as a list
Brooksville: 426 violent, 2013 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Lighthouse Point: 48 violent, 1379 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Palatka: 268 violent, 3735 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Palm Beach: 173 violent, 1274 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Indian Harbour Beach: 144 violent, 521 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Lake Park: 580 violent, 6865 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Miami Shores: 253 violent, 3686 property per 100,000 (grade C)
St. Pete Beach: 311 violent, 2130 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Gulfport: 310 violent, 2186 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Brooksville Police Department
Reporting agency for Brooksville NIBRS-participating
Brooksville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Brooksville's 246 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
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, Brooksville reported 43 violent crimes and 203 property crimes, for a total of 246 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Brooksville?
From 2023 to 2024, Brooksville's violent crime rate decreased by 21.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 39.4%.
What is the most common crime in Brooksville?
The most common crime type in Brooksville is larceny-theft, accounting for 72.4% of all reported crimes (178 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Brooksville 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Brooksville, FL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.