St. Cloud, FL has a A safety grade (75/100) with a violent crime rate of 189 per 100,000, 46% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
St. Cloud, FL Crime Rate & Safety
At 68,966 residents, St. Cloud 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.
St. Cloud, FL is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 46% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, St. Cloud, FL shows violent crime at 188.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 758.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 46% 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.
A safety grade
188.5/100K violent
758.3/100K property
-46% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for St. Cloud, FL
Comparable rate records
St. Cloud's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Florida cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to St. Cloud's 188.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Astatula (189.8), Treasure Island (184.5), Seminole (192.7), Belleair Bluffs (175.7). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 19.9% of the 653 Part I offenses reported in St. Cloud for 2024, against a median of 13.3% across comparable Florida cities — a gap of 6.7 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 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 174.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 188.5 in 2024 (+8.2%). The highest observed value was 233.0 in 2022 and the lowest 165.2 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
St. Cloud sits mid-pack among comparable Florida cities
At 188.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, St. Cloud ranks 66 of 126 — above 60 of the 125 other Florida cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -7.7% 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 counts dominate St. Cloud'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.
St. Cloud's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 29.2 Census sq mi, St. Cloud logged 17.9 property and 4.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
St. Cloud's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (64% of 653 offenses; mix index 4,556).
Violent offenses are 20% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (29.2 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-20.4%
952.6 → 758.3/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+14.1%
165.2 → 188.5/100K
Property offenses lead St. Cloud's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
523
758.3
1711
Larceny-Theft
417
604.6
-
Burglary
91
131.9
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
15
21.7
-
Arson
1
1.4
-
Violent Crime
130
188.5
352
Aggravated Assault
108
156.6
-
Rape
13
18.8
-
Robbery
7
10.1
-
Murder
2
2.9
-
St. Cloud Crime Trend (2020-2024)
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
St. Cloud property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averagesRead the chart as a list
St. Cloud: 189 violent, 758 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Ocala: 500 violent, 3049 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Delray Beach: 422 violent, 2631 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Sanford: 543 violent, 2253 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Wellington: 130 violent, 795 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Apopka: 431 violent, 2318 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Winter Haven: 236 violent, 1549 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Sarasota: 549 violent, 1616 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Bradenton: 449 violent, 1866 property per 100,000 (grade D)
St. Cloud Police Department
Reporting agency for St. Cloud NIBRS-participating
St. Cloud Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind St. Cloud's 653 reported offenses (4-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
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In 2024, St. Cloud reported 130 violent crimes and 523 property crimes, for a total of 653 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in St. Cloud?
From 2023 to 2024, St. Cloud's violent crime rate increased by 14.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 20.4%.
What is the most common crime in St. Cloud?
The most common crime type in St. Cloud is larceny-theft, accounting for 63.9% of all reported crimes (417 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: St. Cloud'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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 St. Cloud, FL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.