Temple Terrace, FL has a C safety grade (44/100) with a violent crime rate of 418 per 100,000, 19% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Temple Terrace (27,062 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
Temple Terrace, FL is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 19% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Temple Terrace, FL shows violent crime at 417.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,651.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 19% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C 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 267.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 417.6 in 2024 (+55.9%). The highest observed value was 417.6 in 2024 and the lowest 267.8 in 2020. 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 Temple Terrace's 417.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Boynton Beach (417.3), Miami Gardens (414.6), Delray Beach (422.0), Belleview (425.1). 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 417.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Temple Terrace ranks 33 of 126 — above 93 of the 125 other Florida cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +116.7% 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 are 20.2% of the 560 Part I offenses reported in Temple Terrace 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 72.5% of reported property offenses in Temple Terrace, against a cohort median of 81.8%. The remainder is burglary (93) and motor vehicle theft (30). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Temple Terrace'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 7.6 Census sq mi, Temple Terrace logged 59.1 property and 14.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Temple Terrace leans on larceny-theft at 58% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,934.
Violent offenses are 20% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Temple Terrace offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (7.6 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 | 447 | 1651.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 324 | 1197.3 |
| Burglary | 93 | 343.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 30 | 110.9 |
| Arson | 1 | 3.7 |
| Violent Crime | 113 | 417.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 93 | 343.7 |
| Robbery | 11 | 40.6 |
| Rape | 8 | 29.6 |
| Murder | 1 | 3.7 |
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 · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 26,890 | 267.8 | 1796.2 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 27,035 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 27,392 | 295.7 | 1850.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 27,462 | 269.5 | 1696.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 27,062 | 417.6 | 1651.8 |
Temple Terrace Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Temple Terrace's 560 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Florida cities closest to Temple Terrace in population. Their populations run from 24,245 to 31,166, against 27,062 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Temple Terrace sits at 417.6/100K violent (grade C); the Florida cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Temple Terrace at 417.6/100K violent and 1,651.8/100K property - matched below outside Florida (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
417.6/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,651.8/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+55% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Temple Terrace reported 113 violent crimes and 447 property crimes, for a total of 560 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Temple Terrace's violent crime rate increased by 55%, and the property crime rate decreased by 2.7%.
The most common crime type in Temple Terrace is larceny-theft, accounting for 57.9% of all reported crimes (324 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Temple Terrace 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 Temple Terrace's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Temple Terrace, FL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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