North Miami Beach, FL has a F safety grade (17/100) with a violent crime rate of 583 per 100,000, 65% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
North Miami Beach, FL Crime Rate & Safety
North Miami Beach (42,574 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then FL and national benchmarks.
North Miami Beach, 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, North Miami Beach, FL shows violent crime at 582.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,912.6 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.
F safety grade
582.5/100K violent
2912.6/100K property
+65% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for North Miami Beach, FL
Position in the state cohort
North Miami Beach reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Florida cities
At 582.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, North Miami Beach ranks 15 of 126 — above 111 of the 125 other Florida cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +202.3% 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
North Miami Beach's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Florida cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to North Miami Beach's 582.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Lake Park (580.4), 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 3 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 734.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 582.5 in 2024 (-20.7%). The highest observed value was 734.9 in 2020 and the lowest 582.5 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 16.7% of the 1,488 Part I offenses reported in North Miami Beach for 2024, against a median of 13.3% across comparable Florida cities — a gap of 3.4 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 North Miami Beach'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.
North Miami Beach's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 4.8 Census sq mi, North Miami Beach logged 256 property and 51.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
North Miami Beach's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (68% of 1,488 offenses; mix index 4,867).
Violent offenses are 17% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4.8 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-9%
639.9 → 582.5/100K
Property Crime Rate
+7.4%
2711.5 → 2912.6/100K
Property offenses lead North Miami Beach's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs FL
Property Crime
1,240
2912.6
1030
Larceny-Theft
1,010
2372.3
-
Burglary
155
364.1
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
75
176.2
-
Arson
3
7
-
Violent Crime
248
582.5
210.3
Aggravated Assault
144
338.2
-
Robbery
83
195
-
Rape
17
39.9
-
Murder
4
9.4
-
North Miami Beach 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.
North Miami Beach property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose 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
North Miami Beach: 583 violent, 2913 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Cutler Bay: 148 violent, 1363 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Oviedo: 106 violent, 583 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Lake Worth: 731 violent, 2657 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Haines City: 132 violent, 794 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Greenacres City: 245 violent, 1346 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Altamonte Springs: 340 violent, 2311 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Royal Palm Beach: 159 violent, 1478 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Riviera Beach: 943 violent, 3631 property per 100,000 (grade F)
North Miami Beach Police Department
Reporting agency for North Miami Beach NIBRS-participating
North Miami Beach Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind North Miami Beach's 1,488 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 North Miami Beach in population. Their populations run from 39,021 to 44,956, against 42,574 here. Or use our
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North Miami Beach at 582.5/100K violent and 2,912.6/100K property - matched below outside Florida (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
How many crimes were reported in North Miami Beach?
In 2024, North Miami Beach reported 248 violent crimes and 1,240 property crimes, for a total of 1,488 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in North Miami Beach?
From 2023 to 2024, North Miami Beach's violent crime rate decreased by 9%, and the property crime rate increased by 7.4%.
What is the most common crime in North Miami Beach?
The most common crime type in North Miami Beach is larceny-theft, accounting for 67.9% of all reported crimes (1,010 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: North Miami Beach 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 North Miami Beach, FL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.