Lake Park, FL has a F safety grade (12/100) with a violent crime rate of 580 per 100,000, 65% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Lake Park is a small municipal reporter (8,959 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with FL and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Lake Park, FL is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 65% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Lake Park, FL shows violent crime at 580.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 6,864.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 65% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 580.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Lake Park ranks 16 of 126 — above 110 of the 125 other Florida cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +201.2% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Lake Park's 580.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are North Miami Beach (582.5), West Palm Beach (575.8), Palmetto (607.5), Sarasota (549.4). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 7.8% of the 667 Part I offenses reported in Lake Park for 2024, against a median of 13.5% across comparable Florida cities — a gap of 5.7 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
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 685.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 580.4 in 2024 (-15.3%). The highest observed value was 685.1 in 2020 and the lowest 580.4 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 91.1% of reported property offenses in Lake Park, against a cohort median of 81.5%. The remainder is burglary (38) and motor vehicle theft (17). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Lake Park'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.
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.
Across 2.1 Census sq mi, Lake Park logged 295 property and 24.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Lake Park's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (84% of 667 offenses; mix index 7,120).
Violent offenses are only 8% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Lake Park offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2.1 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 | 615 | 6864.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 560 | 6250.7 |
| Burglary | 38 | 424.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 17 | 189.8 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 52 | 580.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 36 | 401.8 |
| Robbery | 10 | 111.6 |
| Rape | 4 | 44.6 |
| Murder | 2 | 22.3 |
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 · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 8,612 | 685.1 | 6781.2 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 8,586 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 8,908 | 662.3 | 6073.2 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 8,944 | 603.8 | 6373 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 8,959 | 580.4 | 6864.6 |
Lake Park Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Lake Park's 667 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 Park in population. Their populations run from 7,649 to 10,086, against 8,959 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Lake Park sits at 580.4/100K violent (grade F); the Florida cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Lake Park reported 52 violent crimes and 615 property crimes, for a total of 667 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Lake Park's violent crime rate decreased by 3.9%, and the property crime rate increased by 7.7%.
The most common crime type in Lake Park is larceny-theft, accounting for 84.0% of all reported crimes (560 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Lake Park 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 Lake Park's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Lake Park, FL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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