Wellington, FL has a A safety grade (80/100) with a violent crime rate of 130 per 100,000, 63% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 Per-capita rates FBI UCR + NIBRS
Wellington, FL Crime Rate & Safety
Compiled by PlainCrime, Independent crime-data publisher
At 61,652 residents, Wellington is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against FL and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Wellington, FL carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 63% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Wellington, FL shows violent crime at 129.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 794.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 63% 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.
A safety grade
129.8/100K violent
794.8/100K property
-63% vs U.S.
The verdict
Wellington earns an A safety grade: violent crime runs 63% below the U.S. average, placing it close to the national middle for violent crime.
A
PlainCrime safety grade
-63%
violent crime vs. U.S. average
62nd
percentile of 7,769 U.S. cities
794.8
property crimes per 100K
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Wellington, FL
Comparable rate records
Wellington's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Florida cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Wellington's 129.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Safety Harbor (130.0), Neptune Beach (130.2), Haines City (131.6), Sunny Isles Beach (133.3). 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 100.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 129.8 in 2024 (+28.7%). The highest observed value was 146.7 in 2023 and the lowest 100.9 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Wellington sits mid-pack among comparable Florida cities
At 129.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Wellington ranks 89 of 126 — above 37 of the 125 other Florida cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -36.5% 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.
Property counts dominate Wellington'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 large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-26.9%
1086.9 → 794.8/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-11.5%
146.7 → 129.8/100K
Property offenses lead Wellington's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
490
794.8
1711
Larceny-Theft
393
637.4
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
62
100.6
-
Burglary
35
56.8
-
Arson
2
3.2
-
Violent Crime
80
129.8
352
Aggravated Assault
55
89.2
-
Rape
16
26
-
Robbery
7
11.4
-
Murder
2
3.2
-
Wellington 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.
Wellington property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Property crime rate (2024)
794.8/100K↓26.9%vs 2023
Wellington violent crime rate trend
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Violent crime rate (2024)
129.8/100K↓11.5%vs 2023
Year
Coverage
Population
Violent Rate
Property Rate
Total Crimes
2020
Comparable
66,429
100.9
739.1
558
2021
Insufficient reporting
66,388
-
-
-
2022
Comparable
61,119
129.3
989.9
684
2023
Comparable
61,370
146.7
1086.9
757
2024
Comparable
61,652
129.8
794.8
570
How Wellington sits among FL peers
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Reporting Agency
Wellington Police Department Summary Reporting (SRS)
Wellington's crime figures on this page originate from Wellington Police Department's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
This agency reports via the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS): aggregate monthly offense counts rather than incident-level detail.
Similar-Size Cities in Florida
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Florida cities closest to Wellington in population. Their populations run from 53,481 to 68,966, against 61,652 here. Or use our
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These Florida cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Wellington's 129.8/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Wellington has a violent crime rate of 129.8 per 100,000 residents and a property crime rate of 794.8 per 100,000, based on 2024 FBI UCR data.
Is Wellington, FL safe? ▼
Wellington receives a safety grade of A (Safe), with a safety score of 80/100. The violent crime rate is 63% below the national average and 38% below the Florida average.
What is the population of Wellington, FL? ▼
The reporting population for Wellington is 61,652 as of 2024.
How many crimes were reported in Wellington? ▼
In 2024, Wellington reported 80 violent crimes and 490 property crimes, for a total of 570 reported offenses.
How do Wellington's reported offenses compare with its population? ▼
In 2024, Wellington recorded about one reported offense per 108 residents and one reported violent offense per 771 residents. These ratios count reported offenses, not distinct victims, and are not a person's probability of victimization.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Wellington? ▼
From 2023 to 2024, Wellington's violent crime rate decreased by 11.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 26.9%.
What is the most common crime in Wellington? ▼
The most common crime type in Wellington is larceny-theft, accounting for 68.9% of all reported crimes (393 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Wellington'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 (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 Wellington, FL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.