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 · large city
Wellington, FL Crime Rate & Safety
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 is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 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.
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.
Wellington's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 45.1 Census sq mi, Wellington logged 10.9 property and 1.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Wellington's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (69% of 570 offenses; mix index 5,012).
Violent offenses are only 14% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (45.1 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
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
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averagesRead the chart as a list
Wellington: 130 violent, 795 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Apopka: 431 violent, 2318 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Winter Haven: 236 violent, 1549 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Sarasota: 549 violent, 1616 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Bradenton: 449 violent, 1866 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Sanford: 543 violent, 2253 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Delray Beach: 422 violent, 2631 property per 100,000 (grade D)
St. Cloud: 189 violent, 758 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Pinellas Park: 234 violent, 2206 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Wellington Police Department
Reporting agency for Wellington Summary Reporting (SRS)
Wellington Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Wellington's 570 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
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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In 2024, Wellington reported 80 violent crimes and 490 property crimes, for a total of 570 reported offenses.
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.