Ocala, FL has a F safety grade (24/100) with a violent crime rate of 500 per 100,000, 42% above the national average.
At 70,046 residents, Ocala 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.
Ocala, FL carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 42% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Ocala, FL shows violent crime at 499.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,049.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 42% 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.
The verdict
Ocala earns an F safety grade: violent crime runs 42% above the U.S. average, placing it among the highest-crime cities in the country.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Ocala's 499.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Bartow (491.7), Kissimmee (491.7), Arcadia (513.4), Titusville (518.3). 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 499.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Ocala ranks 22 of 126 — above 104 of the 125 other Florida cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +159.3% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 674.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 499.7 in 2024 (-25.9%). The highest observed value was 733.0 in 2021 and the lowest 499.7 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 89.9% of reported property offenses in Ocala, against a cohort median of 81.5%. The remainder is burglary (192) and motor vehicle theft (23). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Ocala'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.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 2,136 | 3049.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 1,921 | 2742.5 |
| Burglary | 192 | 274.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 23 | 32.8 |
| Arson | 3 | 4.3 |
| Violent Crime | 350 | 499.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 270 | 385.5 |
| Robbery | 41 | 58.5 |
| Rape | 34 | 48.5 |
| Murder | 5 | 7.1 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 61,275 | 674 | 3175.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 62,206 | 733 | 3178.2 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 64,596 | 541.8 | 3032.7 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 66,338 | 536.6 | 3033 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 70,046 | 499.7 | 3049.4 |
Ocala's crime figures on this page originate from Ocala Police Department's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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 Ocala in population. Their populations run from 58,432 to 81,473, against 70,046 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
These Florida cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Ocala's 499.7/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Large-city read: Ocala'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.
Large-city rate methodology for how Ocala's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Ocala, FL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Ocala is scored here as a large city UCR reporter (70,046 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.