St. Petersburg, FL has a F safety grade (17/100) with a violent crime rate of 620 per 100,000, 76% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · very large city
St. Petersburg, FL Crime Rate & Safety
At 264,999 residents, St. Petersburg is a very 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. Petersburg, FL is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 76% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, St. Petersburg, FL shows violent crime at 619.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,458.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 76% 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.
F safety grade
619.6/100K violent
2458.9/100K property
+76% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for St. Petersburg, FL
Position in the state cohort
St. Petersburg reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Florida cities
At 619.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, St. Petersburg ranks 13 of 126 — above 113 of the 125 other Florida cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +221.6% 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.
Comparable rate records
St. Petersburg's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Florida cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to St. Petersburg's 619.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Palmetto (607.5), Panama City (649.5), North Miami Beach (582.5), Lake Park (580.4). 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 20.1% of the 8,158 Part I offenses reported in St. Petersburg for 2024, against a median of 13.3% across comparable Florida cities — a gap of 6.9 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 lower
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 662.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 619.6 in 2024 (-6.4%). The highest observed value was 662.0 in 2020 and the lowest 578.9 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate St. Petersburg'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 very large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
St. Petersburg's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 61.8 Census sq mi, St. Petersburg logged 105.4 property and 26.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
St. Petersburg's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (66% of 8,158 offenses; mix index 4,705).
Violent offenses are 20% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (61.8 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
-8.5%
2687.6 → 2458.9/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+7%
578.9 → 619.6/100K
Property offenses lead St. Petersburg's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs FL
Property Crime
6,516
2458.9
1030
Larceny-Theft
5,379
2029.8
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
582
219.6
-
Burglary
555
209.4
-
Arson
12
4.5
-
Violent Crime
1,642
619.6
210.3
Aggravated Assault
1,293
487.9
-
Robbery
216
81.5
-
Rape
115
43.4
-
Murder
18
6.8
-
St. Petersburg 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. Petersburg 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 averages
St. Petersburg Police Department
Reporting agency for St. Petersburg Summary Reporting (SRS)
St. Petersburg Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind St. Petersburg's 8,158 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.
Similar-Size Cities in Florida
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St. Petersburg at 619.6/100K violent and 2,458.9/100K property - matched below outside Florida (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, St. Petersburg reported 1,642 violent crimes and 6,516 property crimes, for a total of 8,158 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in St. Petersburg?
From 2023 to 2024, St. Petersburg's violent crime rate increased by 7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 8.5%.
What is the most common crime in St. Petersburg?
The most common crime type in St. Petersburg is larceny-theft, accounting for 65.9% of all reported crimes (5,379 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: St. Petersburg'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 (very 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. Petersburg, FL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.