Sebastian, FL has a A safety grade (77/100) with a violent crime rate of 153 per 100,000, 57% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Sebastian (27,445 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then FL and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Sebastian, FL is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 57% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Sebastian, FL shows violent crime at 153 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 900 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 57% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 78.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 153.0 in 2024 (+94.0%). The highest observed value was 162.9 in 2023 and the lowest 64.7 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Sebastian's 153.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are West Melbourne (153.0), Clewiston (152.5), South Pasadena (151.9), Palmetto Bay (148.5). 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 153.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Sebastian ranks 75 of 126 — above 51 of the 125 other Florida cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -25.1% against the cohort median of 204.3. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 89.5% of reported property offenses in Sebastian, against a cohort median of 81.5%. The remainder is burglary (11) and motor vehicle theft (15). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Sebastian'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.
Across 17.4 Census sq mi, Sebastian logged 14.2 property and 2.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Sebastian's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (76% of 289 offenses; mix index 6,002).
Violent offenses are only 15% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Sebastian offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (17.4 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 | 247 | 900 |
| Larceny-Theft | 221 | 805.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 15 | 54.7 |
| Burglary | 11 | 40.1 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 42 | 153 |
| Aggravated Assault | 29 | 105.7 |
| Rape | 10 | 36.4 |
| Robbery | 2 | 7.3 |
| Murder | 1 | 3.6 |
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 · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 26,626 | 78.9 | 582.1 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 26,982 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 26,258 | 64.7 | 910.2 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 27,004 | 162.9 | 1588.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 27,445 | 153 | 900 |
Sebastian Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Sebastian's 289 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 Sebastian in population. Their populations run from 24,245 to 31,166, against 27,445 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Sebastian sits at 153/100K violent (grade A); the Florida cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Sebastian at 153/100K violent and 900/100K property - matched below outside Florida (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
153/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
900/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-6.1% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Sebastian reported 42 violent crimes and 247 property crimes, for a total of 289 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Sebastian's violent crime rate decreased by 6.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 43.3%.
The most common crime type in Sebastian is larceny-theft, accounting for 76.5% of all reported crimes (221 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Sebastian 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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Sebastian's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Sebastian, FL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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