Pahokee, FL has a F safety grade (10/100) with a violent crime rate of 1132 per 100,000, 222% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Pahokee is a small municipal reporter (5,567 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with FL and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Pahokee, FL is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 222% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Pahokee, FL shows violent crime at 1,131.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,245.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 222% 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 1131.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Pahokee ranks 4 of 126 — above 122 of the 125 other Florida cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +487.3% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 33.5% of the 188 Part I offenses reported in Pahokee for 2024, against a median of 13.3% across comparable Florida cities — a gap of 20.3 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Pahokee's 1131.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Cocoa (1082.3), South Bay (1001.8), Mangonia Park (943.7), Riviera Beach (943.1). 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
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 894.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1131.7 in 2024 (+26.5%). The highest observed value was 1131.7 in 2024 and the lowest 821.5 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Pahokee'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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 5.3 Census sq mi, Pahokee logged 23.5 property and 11.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Pahokee leans on larceny-theft at 55% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,996.
Violent offenses are 34% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Pahokee offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (5.3 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 | 125 | 2245.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 103 | 1850.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 12 | 215.6 |
| Burglary | 10 | 179.6 |
| Arson | 3 | 53.9 |
| Violent Crime | 63 | 1131.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 57 | 1023.9 |
| Murder | 2 | 35.9 |
| Rape | 2 | 35.9 |
| Robbery | 2 | 35.9 |
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 · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 6,372 | 894.5 | 2746.4 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 6,343 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 5,356 | 821.5 | 2240.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 5,551 | 1080.9 | 3278.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 5,567 | 1131.7 | 2245.4 |
Pahokee Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Pahokee's 188 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 Pahokee in population. Their populations run from 4,891 to 6,128, against 5,567 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Pahokee sits at 1,131.7/100K violent (grade F); the Florida cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Pahokee reported 63 violent crimes and 125 property crimes, for a total of 188 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Pahokee's violent crime rate increased by 4.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 31.5%.
The most common crime type in Pahokee is larceny-theft, accounting for 54.8% of all reported crimes (103 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Pahokee is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Pahokee's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Pahokee, FL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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