Lake Worth, FL has a F safety grade (7/100) with a violent crime rate of 731 per 100,000, 108% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Lake Worth (41,324 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 Worth, FL is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 108% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Lake Worth, FL shows violent crime at 730.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,657.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 108% 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 730.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Lake Worth ranks 11 of 126 — above 115 of the 125 other Florida cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +279.3% 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 Worth's 730.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Gainesville (738.0), Springfield (804.3), Panama City (649.5), St. Petersburg (619.6). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1052.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 730.8 in 2024 (-30.6%). The highest observed value was 1052.8 in 2020 and the lowest 692.7 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 21.6% of the 1,400 Part I offenses reported in Lake Worth for 2024, against a median of 13.3% across comparable Florida cities — a gap of 8.3 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 Worth'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.
Across 43 Census sq mi, Lake Worth logged 25.5 property and 7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Lake Worth's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 1,400 offenses; mix index 4,121).
Violent offenses are 22% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Lake Worth offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (43 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 | 1,098 | 2657.1 |
| Larceny-Theft | 858 | 2076.3 |
| Burglary | 123 | 297.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 117 | 283.1 |
| Arson | 5 | 12.1 |
| Violent Crime | 302 | 730.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 186 | 450.1 |
| Robbery | 87 | 210.5 |
| Rape | 25 | 60.5 |
| Murder | 4 | 9.7 |
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 | 38,945 | 1052.8 | 3225.1 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 39,098 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 39,844 | 692.7 | 2281.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 40,498 | 933.4 | 2859.4 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 41,324 | 730.8 | 2657.1 |
Lake Worth Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Lake Worth's 1,400 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 Worth in population. Their populations run from 38,317 to 44,143, against 41,324 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Lake Worth sits at 730.8/100K violent (grade F); the Florida cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Lake Worth at 730.8/100K violent and 2,657.1/100K property - matched below outside Florida (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
730.8/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,657.1/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-21.7% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Lake Worth reported 302 violent crimes and 1,098 property crimes, for a total of 1,400 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Lake Worth's violent crime rate decreased by 21.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 7.1%.
The most common crime type in Lake Worth is larceny-theft, accounting for 61.3% of all reported crimes (858 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Lake Worth 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 Worth's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Lake Worth, FL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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