Indian Harbour Beach, FL has a A safety grade (81/100) with a violent crime rate of 144 per 100,000, 59% below the national average.
Indian Harbour Beach is a small municipal reporter (9,020 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with FL and U.S. context.
Indian Harbour Beach, FL carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 59% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Indian Harbour Beach, FL shows violent crime at 144.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 521.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 59% 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.
The verdict
Indian Harbour Beach earns an A safety grade: violent crime runs 59% below the U.S. average, placing it close to the national middle for violent crime.
Based on 13 reported violent incidents in a population of 9,020. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Small-count caution
Indian Harbour Beach reported 13 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 9,020. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 81.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 144.1 in 2024 (+77.1%). The highest observed value was 144.1 in 2024 and the lowest 81.4 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Indian Harbour Beach's 144.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Lynn Haven (141.8), Cutler Bay (147.8), Palmetto Bay (148.5), Lake Mary (138.0). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 21.7% of the 60 Part I offenses reported in Indian Harbour Beach for 2024, against a median of 13.3% across comparable Florida cities — a gap of 8.4 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
At 144.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Indian Harbour Beach ranks 80 of 126 — above 46 of the 125 other Florida cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -29.5% 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 Indian Harbour 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.
Based on 13 reported violent incidents in a population of 9,020. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 47 | 521.1 |
| Larceny-Theft | 39 | 432.4 |
| Burglary | 8 | 88.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 13 | 144.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 13 | 144.1 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 8,602 | 81.4 | 1255.5 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 8,553 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 8,950 | 89.4 | 759.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 8,992 | 100.1 | 711.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 9,020 | 144.1 | 521.1 |
Indian Harbour Beach's crime figures on this page originate from Indian Harbour 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Florida cities closest to Indian Harbour Beach in population. Their populations run from 7,649 to 10,086, against 9,020 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
These Florida cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Indian Harbour Beach's 144.1/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Small-city read: Indian Harbour Beach is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Indian Harbour Beach's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Indian Harbour Beach, FL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Indian Harbour Beach is scored as a small-city UCR reporter (9,020 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.