Lake Hamilton, FL has a B safety grade (68/100) with a violent crime rate of 119 per 100,000, 66% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Lake Hamilton's UCR row covers a small municipal population (1,675). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to FL and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Lake Hamilton, FL is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 66% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Lake Hamilton, FL shows violent crime at 119.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,268.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 66% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Lake Hamilton reported 2 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 1,675. 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 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 457.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 119.4 in 2024 (-73.9%). The highest observed value was 457.5 in 2020 and the lowest 0.0 in 2021. 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 Lake Hamilton's 119.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Jupiter Island (119.9), Oldsmar (121.6), Tequesta (114.2), Maitland (125.4). 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
At 119.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Lake Hamilton ranks 93 of 126 — above 33 of the 125 other Florida cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -41.6% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 5.0% of the 40 Part I offenses reported in Lake Hamilton for 2024, against a median of 13.5% across comparable Florida cities — a gap of 8.5 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.
Property counts dominate Lake Hamilton'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 2 reported violent incidents in a population of 1,675. 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.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Across 3.1 Census sq mi, Lake Hamilton logged 12.2 property and 0.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Lake Hamilton's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (73% of 40 offenses; mix index 5,562).
Violent offenses are only 5% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Lake Hamilton offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (3.1 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 38 | 2268.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 29 | 1731.3 |
| Burglary | 6 | 358.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 3 | 179.1 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 2 | 119.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 2 | 119.4 |
| 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 · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 1,530 | 457.5 | 3202.6 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 1,578 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 1,571 | 191 | 2418.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 1,651 | 60.6 | 1514.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 1,675 | 119.4 | 2268.7 |
Lake Hamilton Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Lake Hamilton's 40 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Florida cities closest to Lake Hamilton in population. Their populations run from 1,324 to 2,266, against 1,675 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Lake Hamilton sits at 119.4/100K violent (grade B); the Florida cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Lake Hamilton reported 2 violent crimes and 38 property crimes, for a total of 40 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Lake Hamilton's violent crime rate increased by 97%, and the property crime rate increased by 49.8%.
The most common crime type in Lake Hamilton is larceny-theft, accounting for 72.5% of all reported crimes (29 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Lake Hamilton's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Lake Hamilton's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Lake Hamilton, FL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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