Miami, FL has a D safety grade (27/100) with a violent crime rate of 473 per 100,000, 34% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · very large city
At 460,392 residents, Miami is a very large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against FL and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Miami, FL is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns a D PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 34% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Miami, FL shows violent crime at 473.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,995.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 34% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Miami's 473.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Kissimmee (491.7), Bartow (491.7), Bradenton (448.7), Ocala (499.7). 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 473.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Miami ranks 25 of 126 — above 101 of the 125 other Florida cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +145.6% 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.
Share of the state cohort
The 15,968 Part I offenses reported here are 15.3% of the 104,068 reported across all 126 comparable Florida cities in 2024. A city this large moves the statewide municipal total on its own, so state-level changes should be read against its population of 460,392 rather than as a uniform shift.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 555.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 473.3 in 2024 (-14.8%). The highest observed value was 555.6 in 2020 and the lowest 276.8 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Miami'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.
On a very large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Across 123.9 Census sq mi, Miami logged 111.3 property and 17.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Miami's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (66% of 15,968 offenses; mix index 4,682).
Violent offenses are only 14% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Miami offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (123.9 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 | 13,789 | 2995.1 |
| Larceny-Theft | 10,545 | 2290.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1,889 | 410.3 |
| Burglary | 1,355 | 294.3 |
| Arson | 46 | 10 |
| Violent Crime | 2,179 | 473.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 1,604 | 348.4 |
| Robbery | 439 | 95.4 |
| Rape | 108 | 23.5 |
| Murder | 28 | 6.1 |
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 | 476,102 | 555.6 | 2758.2 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 479,262 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 437,900 | 276.8 | 1654 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 452,929 | 495.7 | 2947.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 460,392 | 473.3 | 2995.1 |
Miami Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Miami's 15,968 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
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 Miami in population. Their populations run from 100,557 to 408,646, against 460,392 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Miami sits at 473.3/100K violent (grade D); the Florida cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Miami at 473.3/100K violent and 2,995.1/100K property - matched below outside Florida (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
473.3/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,995.1/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-4.5% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Miami reported 2,179 violent crimes and 13,789 property crimes, for a total of 15,968 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Miami's violent crime rate decreased by 4.5%, and the property crime rate increased by 1.6%.
The most common crime type in Miami is larceny-theft, accounting for 66.0% of all reported crimes (10,545 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Miami's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (very large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Large-city rate methodology for how Miami's very large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Miami, FL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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