Miami Gardens, FL has a D safety grade (37/100) with a violent crime rate of 415 per 100,000, 18% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Miami Gardens, FL Crime Rate & Safety
At 110,466 residents, Miami Gardens is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against FL and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Miami Gardens, FL is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns a D PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 18% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Miami Gardens, FL shows violent crime at 414.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,429.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 18% 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.
D safety grade
414.6/100K violent
2429.7/100K property
+18% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Miami Gardens, FL
Comparable rate records
Miami Gardens's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Florida cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Miami Gardens's 414.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Boynton Beach (417.3), Temple Terrace (417.6), Delray Beach (422.0), Belleview (425.1). 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 3 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 709.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 414.6 in 2024 (-41.5%). The highest observed value was 709.1 in 2020 and the lowest 177.3 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Miami Gardens sits mid-pack among comparable Florida cities
At 414.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Miami Gardens ranks 35 of 126 — above 91 of the 125 other Florida cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +115.2% 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.
Property counts dominate Miami Gardens'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 large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Miami Gardens's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 18.5 Census sq mi, Miami Gardens logged 145.2 property and 24.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Miami Gardens's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (68% of 3,142 offenses; mix index 4,890).
Violent offenses are only 15% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (18.5 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Both rates shifted (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+133.8%
177.3 → 414.6/100K
Property Crime Rate
+147.5%
981.7 → 2429.7/100K
Property offenses lead Miami Gardens's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs FL
Property Crime
2,684
2429.7
1030
Larceny-Theft
2,126
1924.6
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
396
358.5
-
Burglary
162
146.7
-
Arson
9
8.1
-
Violent Crime
458
414.6
210.3
Aggravated Assault
342
309.6
-
Robbery
81
73.3
-
Rape
22
19.9
-
Murder
13
11.8
-
Miami Gardens Crime Trend (2020-2024)
The chart omits 2021, 2022 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Miami Gardens property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 3 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averagesRead the chart as a list
Miami Gardens: 415 violent, 2430 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Boca Raton: 171 violent, 1677 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Plantation: 210 violent, 2273 property per 100,000 (grade C)
West Palm Beach: 576 violent, 2138 property per 100,000 (grade F)
North Port: 94 violent, 781 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Coral Springs: 137 violent, 1094 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Kissimmee: 492 violent, 1895 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Boynton Beach: 417 violent, 2283 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Palm Bay: 347 violent, 1018 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Miami Gardens Police Department
Reporting agency for Miami Gardens NIBRS-participating
Miami Gardens Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Miami Gardens's 3,142 reported offenses (3-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.
Similar-Size Cities in Florida
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Florida cities closest to Miami Gardens in population. Their populations run from 81,473 to 141,137, against 110,466 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Miami Gardens reported 458 violent crimes and 2,684 property crimes, for a total of 3,142 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Miami Gardens?
From 2023 to 2024, Miami Gardens's violent crime rate increased by 133.8%, and the property crime rate increased by 147.5%.
What is the most common crime in Miami Gardens?
The most common crime type in Miami Gardens is larceny-theft, accounting for 67.7% of all reported crimes (2,126 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Miami Gardens'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 (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Miami Gardens, FL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.