South Miami, FL is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns a D PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 27% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, South Miami, FL shows violent crime at 446.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,164.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 27% 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
446.1/100K violent
2164.2/100K property
+27% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for South Miami, FL
Comparable rate records
South Miami's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Florida cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to South Miami's 446.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Tampa (444.6), Bradenton (448.7), Apopka (430.8), Brooksville (426.3). 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
South Miami reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Florida cities
At 446.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, South Miami ranks 27 of 126 — above 99 of the 125 other Florida cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +131.5% 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 make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 17.1% of the 316 Part I offenses reported in South Miami for 2024, against a median of 13.3% across comparable Florida cities — a gap of 3.8 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 419.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 446.1 in 2024 (+6.5%). The highest observed value was 731.0 in 2023 and the lowest 419.0 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate South Miami'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.
South Miami's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 2.3 Census sq mi, South Miami logged 115.6 property and 23.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
South Miami's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (64% of 316 offenses; mix index 4,538).
Violent offenses are 17% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2.3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-39%
731 → 446.1/100K
Property Crime Rate
-17.5%
2623 → 2164.2/100K
Property offenses lead South Miami's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs FL
Property Crime
262
2164.2
1030
Larceny-Theft
202
1668.6
-
Burglary
53
437.8
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
7
57.8
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
54
446.1
210.3
Aggravated Assault
39
322.2
-
Robbery
11
90.9
-
Murder
2
16.5
-
Rape
2
16.5
-
South Miami Crime Trend (2020-2024)
South Miami property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averagesRead the chart as a list
South Miami: 446 violent, 2164 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Florida City: 2291 violent, 8014 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Gulfport: 310 violent, 2186 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Miami Shores: 253 violent, 3686 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Atlantic Beach: 161 violent, 1491 property per 100,000 (grade B)
North Palm Beach: 84 violent, 550 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Palatka: 268 violent, 3735 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Palmetto: 608 violent, 1779 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Lighthouse Point: 48 violent, 1379 property per 100,000 (grade A)
South Miami Police Department
Reporting agency for South Miami NIBRS-participating
South Miami Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind South Miami's 316 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
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
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South Miami at 446.1/100K violent and 2,164.2/100K property - matched below outside Florida (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, South Miami reported 54 violent crimes and 262 property crimes, for a total of 316 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in South Miami?
From 2023 to 2024, South Miami's violent crime rate decreased by 39%, and the property crime rate decreased by 17.5%.
What is the most common crime in South Miami?
The most common crime type in South Miami is larceny-theft, accounting for 63.9% of all reported crimes (202 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: South Miami 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 South Miami, FL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.