Vero Beach, FL has a A+ safety grade (93/100) with a violent crime rate of 45 per 100,000, 87% below the national average.
Vero Beach (17,622 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then FL and national benchmarks.
Vero Beach, FL carries a PlainCrime A+ safety grade with violent crime 87% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Vero Beach, FL shows violent crime at 45.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 272.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 87% 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.
The verdict
Vero Beach earns an A+ safety grade: violent crime runs 87% below the U.S. average, placing it among the safest cities in the country.
Based on 8 reported violent incidents in a population of 17,622. 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-count caution
Vero Beach reported 8 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 17,622. 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 191.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 45.4 in 2024 (-76.3%). The highest observed value was 191.3 in 2020 and the lowest 11.7 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 45.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Vero Beach ranks 117 of 126 — above 9 of the 125 other Florida cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -77.8% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Vero Beach's 45.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Lighthouse Point (47.6), Bowling Green (40.6), Bay Harbor Islands (35.7), Key Biscayne (55.9). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 89.6% of reported property offenses in Vero Beach, against a cohort median of 81.5%. The remainder is burglary (5) 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 Vero Beach'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 8 reported violent incidents in a population of 17,622. 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.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 48 | 272.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 43 | 244 |
| Burglary | 5 | 28.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 8 | 45.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 5 | 28.4 |
| Rape | 2 | 11.3 |
| Robbery | 1 | 5.7 |
| Murder | 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 · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 17,776 | 191.3 | 1406.4 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 18,049 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 17,038 | 11.7 | 0 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 17,438 | 74.5 | 539.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 17,622 | 45.4 | 272.4 |
Vero Beach's crime figures on this page originate from Vero Beach Police Department's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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 Vero Beach in population. Their populations run from 16,362 to 17,963, against 17,622 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
These Florida cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Vero Beach's 45.4/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Mid-size read: Vero Beach 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 Vero Beach's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Vero Beach, FL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Vero Beach is scored in the mid-size municipal band (17,622 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.