Lake Mary, FL has a A safety grade (77/100) with a violent crime rate of 138 per 100,000, 61% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Lake Mary (16,669 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then FL and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Lake Mary, FL is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 61% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Lake Mary, FL shows violent crime at 138 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,037.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 61% 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.
Small-count caution
Lake Mary reported 23 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 16,669. 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Lake Mary's 138.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Indian Rocks Beach (137.8), Coral Springs (136.9), Lynn Haven (141.8), Sunny Isles Beach (133.3). 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 138.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Lake Mary ranks 82 of 126 — above 44 of the 125 other Florida cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -32.5% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 167.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 138.0 in 2024 (-17.5%). The highest observed value was 167.2 in 2020 and the lowest 65.7 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Lake Mary'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 23 reported violent incidents in a population of 16,669. 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 9.1 Census sq mi, Lake Mary logged 19.1 property and 2.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Lake Mary's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (74% of 196 offenses; mix index 5,779).
Violent offenses are only 12% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Lake Mary offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (9.1 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 | 173 | 1037.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 146 | 875.9 |
| Burglary | 23 | 138 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 4 | 24 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 23 | 138 |
| Aggravated Assault | 18 | 108 |
| Rape | 4 | 24 |
| Robbery | 1 | 6 |
| Murder | 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 | 17,947 | 167.2 | 1108.8 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 17,908 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 16,469 | 127.5 | 1208.3 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 16,744 | 65.7 | 955.6 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 16,669 | 138 | 1037.9 |
Lake Mary Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Lake Mary's 196 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 Mary in population. Their populations run from 16,362 to 17,963, against 16,669 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Lake Mary sits at 138/100K violent (grade A); the Florida cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Lake Mary at 138/100K violent and 1,037.9/100K property - matched below outside Florida (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
138/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,037.9/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Lake Mary reported 23 violent crimes and 173 property crimes, for a total of 196 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Lake Mary's violent crime rate increased by 110%, and the property crime rate increased by 8.6%.
The most common crime type in Lake Mary is larceny-theft, accounting for 74.5% of all reported crimes (146 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Lake Mary 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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Lake Mary's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Lake Mary, FL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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