The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Glenvar Heights, FL
Glenvar Heights is an unincorporated community of 18,800 in Miami-Dade County · Updated November 2026
Is Glenvar Heights, FL safe?
Yes. An overall CrimeGrade™ of A- means crime in Glenvar Heights is low. Most US neighborhoods have little crime too, so Glenvar Heights sits near the middle: 43% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime, and 57% in neighborhoods with less. Violent crime grades A- and property crime B+. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Glenvar Heights run from A to C+, so check the map below.
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Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 797 of 1,000About as safe as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
43% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Glenvar Heights as a whole, and 57% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Glenvar Heights scores 797.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its crime with the people, homes and cars there, on one national scale, from green for the least crime to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy shopping center can show red while the homes beside it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a strong connection. Compare high speed internet in Glenvar Heights, FL at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Glenvar Heights, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out in Glenvar Heights
Car thefts run high for an A-graded city. Glenvar Heights has 3.7 car thefts a year per 1,000 residents; for the typical resident of an A-graded US city, the figure is 0.93.
Burglary is a strength. Glenvar Heights grades B+ for property crime, but burglary grades A, better than in the neighborhoods where 56% of Americans live.
The safest and least safe parts of Glenvar Heights
Most of Glenvar Heights grades well: 93% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and the rest in areas graded C. Grades across Glenvar Heights run from A to C+; 8% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
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A or B 93%C 7%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Within Glenvar Heights, the southeast side has the least crime and the southwest side the most.
Crime rates and types in Glenvar Heights
CrimeGrade™ estimates Glenvar Heights has about 39 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, about the same as the US as a whole and 27% more than Florida.
Overall crime
Violent crime
Property crime
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. These figures include simple assaults and vandalism, which the FBI's violent and property crime rates leave out.
The largest share of crime reported in Glenvar Heights is theft, about 56% of the total. It also makes up the largest share of what crime costs here.
Each CrimeGrade™ compares a crime with what it affects: people for assaults and robbery, homes for burglary, parked cars for vehicle theft. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
How Glenvar Heights compares with nearby cities
Glenvar Heights has less crime than 7 of its 10 nearest cities.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Glenvar Heights. Beside each overall CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with cities of similar size and density, Glenvar Heights is safer than 60% of them.
Two things set Glenvar Heights apart: it has 24.9 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally, and 25 buses and trains an hour at the evening rush, where most Americans have none nearby. Places like that tend to report more theft, and it runs high here.
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft.24.9 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 98% of US city residents
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft and robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Glenvar Heights: C- (27 of 100).25 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 92% of US city residents
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more theft and assault. 63% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.C (32 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 83% of US city residents
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Lit at nightSatellite images show which neighborhoods are lit at night, a sign of busy streets and businesses. Brightly lit places tend to report more theft and vandalism.100% where people liveUS: 78%Higher than for 92% of US city residents
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.61% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 88% of US city residents
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.0.8 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Lower than for 83% of US city residents
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What crime costs Glenvar Heights
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Glenvar Heights about $811 a year per household, 33% less than the US figure of $1,205.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost comes to about $21 million a year, or $1,127 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$1.3 million
$67
Rape
$380,000
$20
Robbery
$300,000
$16
Assault
$1.5 million
$82
Burglary
$230,000
$12
Theft
$2.1 million
$112
Vehicle theft
$1.1 million
$56
Arson
$22,000
$1
Vandalism
$590,000
$32
Total
$7.5 million
$399
How CrimeGrade™ works
A CrimeGrade™ shows how much crime an area has compared with the rest of the country, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most. Every neighborhood in the US is graded on the same scale, so a B in Glenvar Heights means the same as a B anywhere else.
CrimeGrade™ starts from the crimes people report to police and measures each kind of crime against what it affects: people for assaults, homes for burglaries, parked cars for car thefts.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
Published research on what crime costs victims and communities
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
Schools in Glenvar Heights, FL average a SchoolGrade of B+: 60% of students test proficient, against 45% projected for schools like them. Overall, they greatly exceed expectations. See schools in Glenvar Heights on SchoolGrade
