Tequesta, FL has a A safety grade (85/100) with a violent crime rate of 114 per 100,000, 68% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Tequesta is a small municipal reporter (6,128 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with FL and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Tequesta, FL is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 68% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Tequesta, FL shows violent crime at 114.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 456.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 68% 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.
Small-count caution
Tequesta reported 7 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 6,128. 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 Tequesta's 114.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Lake Hamilton (119.4), Jupiter Island (119.9), Oldsmar (121.6), Oviedo (105.6). 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 114.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Tequesta ranks 94 of 126 — above 32 of the 125 other Florida cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -44.1% 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 20.0% of the 35 Part I offenses reported in Tequesta 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 96.4% of reported property offenses in Tequesta, against a cohort median of 81.5%. The remainder is burglary (1) and motor vehicle theft (0). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Tequesta'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 7 reported violent incidents in a population of 6,128. 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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 1.8 Census sq mi, Tequesta logged 15.3 property and 3.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Tequesta's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (77% of 35 offenses; mix index 6,359).
Violent offenses are 20% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Tequesta offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (1.8 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 28 | 456.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 27 | 440.6 |
| Burglary | 1 | 16.3 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 7 | 114.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 7 | 114.2 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
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 · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 6,193 | 0 | 436 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 6,178 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 6,043 | 33.1 | 546.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 6,091 | 32.8 | 443.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 6,128 | 114.2 | 456.9 |
Tequesta Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Tequesta's 35 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 Tequesta in population. Their populations run from 5,268 to 6,991, against 6,128 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Tequesta sits at 114.2/100K violent (grade A); the Florida cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Tequesta reported 7 violent crimes and 28 property crimes, for a total of 35 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Tequesta's violent crime rate increased by 248.2%, and the property crime rate increased by 3.1%.
The most common crime type in Tequesta is larceny-theft, accounting for 77.1% of all reported crimes (27 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Tequesta is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Tequesta's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Tequesta, FL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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