Haines City, FL is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 63% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Haines City, FL shows violent crime at 131.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 794.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 63% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
A safety grade
131.6/100K violent
794.4/100K property
-63% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Haines City, FL
Comparable rate records
Haines City's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Florida cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Haines City's 131.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Neptune Beach (130.2), Safety Harbor (130.0), Sunny Isles Beach (133.3), Wellington (129.8). 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
Haines City sits mid-pack among comparable Florida cities
At 131.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Haines City ranks 86 of 126 — above 40 of the 125 other Florida cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -35.6% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 168.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 131.6 in 2024 (-21.9%). The highest observed value was 168.4 in 2020 and the lowest 86.7 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Haines City'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.
Haines City's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 23.8 Census sq mi, Haines City logged 13.7 property and 2.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Haines City's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (65% of 380 offenses; mix index 4,584).
Violent offenses are only 14% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (23.8 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+51.8%
86.7 → 131.6/100K
Property Crime Rate
-6.3%
848.1 → 794.4/100K
Property offenses lead Haines City's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
326
794.4
1711
Larceny-Theft
246
599.5
-
Burglary
57
138.9
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
23
56
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
54
131.6
352
Aggravated Assault
43
104.8
-
Robbery
5
12.2
-
Rape
4
9.7
-
Murder
2
4.9
-
Haines City 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.
Haines City 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 averages
Haines City Police Department
Reporting agency for Haines City Summary Reporting (SRS)
Haines City Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Haines City's 380 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
This agency reports via the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS): aggregate monthly offense counts rather than incident-level detail.
Similar-Size Cities in Florida
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Haines City at 131.6/100K violent and 794.4/100K property - matched below outside Florida (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Haines City reported 54 violent crimes and 326 property crimes, for a total of 380 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Haines City?
From 2023 to 2024, Haines City's violent crime rate increased by 51.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 6.3%.
What is the most common crime in Haines City?
The most common crime type in Haines City is larceny-theft, accounting for 64.7% of all reported crimes (246 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Haines City 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 Haines City, FL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.