The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Jacksonville, FL
The Jacksonville metro area, the 39th-largest in the US, is home to 1.68 million residents; Jacksonville itself is the largest city in Florida · Updated November 2026
Is Jacksonville, FL safe?
Mostly, yes. Crime in the Jacksonville area is low, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of A-, but most US neighborhoods are safer still: the Jacksonville area has more crime than the neighborhoods where 61% of Americans live. Property crime grades better than violent crime here, A- against B+. The city of Jacksonville itself grades B. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within the Jacksonville area run from A+ to F, so check the map or the safest and least safe places below.
A-
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 773 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
39% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than the Jacksonville area as a whole, and 61% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. The Jacksonville area scores 773.
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 Jacksonville, FL at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in the Jacksonville area, 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 the Jacksonville area
Aggravated assaults run high in Highlands, Mid-Westside & Brentwood. In this part of north Jacksonville, they run at more than double the rate in the rest of Jacksonville.
Car thefts happen at homes far more often than nationally. In the Jacksonville area, 64% of reported car thefts happen at homes, against 33% nationally.
The safest and most dangerous places in the Jacksonville area
Low crime is the norm across the Jacksonville area: 81% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and 8% in areas graded D or F. Grades across the Jacksonville area run from A+ to F; 51% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
81%11%
A or B 81%C 11%D or F 8%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Neighborhoods of Jacksonville
1Beach Haven, Del Rio & Windy Hill, southeastRobberies run at less than half the rate in the rest of Jacksonville.A-817
2Mandarin, Lakewood & Miramar, southRobberies run at about half the rate in the rest of Jacksonville.A-795
Neighborhood areas of the city of Jacksonville, ranked by overall CrimeGrade™; beside each grade is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer). Each one combines several of the smaller areas on the map.
Cities and towns in the Jacksonville metro area with at least 1,000 residents. Ranked by overall CrimeGrade™; beside each grade is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer), and the other numbers are residents.
Across the area, the St. Augustine, Ponte Vedra, and World Golf Village areas have the least crime and the Yulee area the most.
Is crime going up in the Jacksonville area?
Reported crime in the Jacksonville area has fallen since 2019: violent crime is down 15% and property crime down 27%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 4.7 to 4.0 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 25 to 18 (US: 18). In 2024 alone, violent crime fell 12%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
Jacksonville areaUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments across the Jacksonville area. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Jacksonville area
Violent, US
Property, Jacksonville area
Property, US
2016
+1%
+4%
+16%
+15%
2017
+2%
+4%
+12%
+12%
2018
-4%
+0%
+5%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
+4%
+4%
-15%
-8%
2021
+1%
+6%
-27%
-10%
2022
-6%
+5%
-28%
-6%
2023
-4%
+2%
-26%
-7%
2024
-15%
-4%
-27%
-15%
Crime rates and types in the Jacksonville area
CrimeGrade™ estimates the Jacksonville area has about 39 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, about the same as the US as a whole and 26% 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.
Assault is the most common crime in the Jacksonville area, about 37% of everything reported, and it also accounts for 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.
Where and when crime happens in the Jacksonville area
These figures come from the reports of the police departments across the Jacksonville area, 2022 to 2024.
In the Jacksonville area, 57% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often at homes: 60% of them, against 34% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (57%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Homes (64%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Homes (60%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (59%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Robbery
Homes (30%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (59%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times; they are over one in five for burglary, car theft, theft from cars, vandalism, robbery, aggravated assault.
How the Jacksonville area compares with nearby metro areas
The Jacksonville area has the most crime of its 10 nearest metro areas.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from the Jacksonville area. Beside each overall CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with metro areas of similar size and density, the Jacksonville area is safer than 50% of them.
Density, transit and empty homes in the Jacksonville area
One thing sets the Jacksonville area apart: it has 9% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally. Places like that tend to report less robbery and car theft, yet robbery and car theft run higher here than that would suggest.
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.9% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 83% of Americans in metro areas
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for the Jacksonville area: D- (8 of 100).1 trips an hourUS: noneLower than for 77% of Americans in metro areas
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary.6.9% of homesUS: 7.1%Higher than for 69% of Americans in metro areas
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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.83% where people liveUS: 78%Lower than for 64% of Americans in metro areas
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 the Jacksonville area
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs the Jacksonville area about $1,198 a year per household, about the same as the US figure of $1,205. The total is about $753 million a year.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost rises to about $2.43 billion a year, or $1,442 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$130 million
$77
Rape
$35 million
$21
Robbery
$22 million
$13
Assault
$293 million
$174
Burglary
$35 million
$21
Theft
$124 million
$74
Vehicle theft
$60 million
$35
Arson
$2.4 million
$1
Vandalism
$52 million
$31
Total
$753 million
$447
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 the Jacksonville area 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. These figures cover the whole Jacksonville metro area. 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 the Jacksonville area average a SchoolGrade of C+: 56% of students test proficient, against 44% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in the Jacksonville area on SchoolGrade
