Sweetwater, FL has a B safety grade (72/100) with a violent crime rate of 101 per 100,000, 71% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Sweetwater (20,733 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
Sweetwater, FL is safer than most U.S. cities, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 71% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Sweetwater, FL shows violent crime at 101.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,069.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 71% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Sweetwater reported 21 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 20,733. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Sweetwater's 101.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Miami Lakes (101.6), Oviedo (105.6), Village of Pinecrest (94.6), North Port (93.7). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 101.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Sweetwater ranks 97 of 126 — above 29 of the 125 other Florida cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -50.4% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 4.7% of the 450 Part I offenses reported in Sweetwater for 2024, against a median of 13.5% across comparable Florida cities — a gap of 8.8 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.
Property counts dominate Sweetwater'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.
Based on 21 reported violent incidents in a population of 20,733. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 3.9 Census sq mi, Sweetwater logged 110.9 property and 5.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Sweetwater's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (77% of 450 offenses; mix index 6,164).
Violent offenses are only 5% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Sweetwater offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (3.9 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 | 429 | 2069.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 345 | 1664 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 74 | 356.9 |
| Burglary | 10 | 48.2 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 21 | 101.3 |
| Robbery | 11 | 53.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 10 | 48.2 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Insufficient reporting | 21,109 | - | - |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 20,825 | - | - |
| 2022 | Insufficient reporting | 18,504 | - | - |
| 2023 | Insufficient reporting | 19,756 | - | - |
| 2024 | Comparable | 20,733 | 101.3 | 2069.2 |
Sweetwater Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Sweetwater's 450 reported offenses (1-year span 2024-2024).
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 Sweetwater in population. Their populations run from 20,109 to 22,065, against 20,733 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Sweetwater sits at 101.3/100K violent (grade B); the Florida cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Sweetwater at 101.3/100K violent and 2,069.2/100K property - matched below outside Florida (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
101.3/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,069.2/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Sweetwater reported 21 violent crimes and 429 property crimes, for a total of 450 reported offenses.
The most common crime type in Sweetwater is larceny-theft, accounting for 76.7% of all reported crimes (345 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Sweetwater 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 Sweetwater's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Sweetwater, FL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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