Highlands, Jacksonville, FL Violent Crime Rates and Maps
Highlands is a neighborhood of 11,400 residents in Jacksonville, about 7 miles north of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Highlands?
Violent crime is high in Highlands: a D+, with more violent crime than the neighborhoods where 91% of Americans live. Assaults make up 96% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. Jacksonville as a whole grades B for violent crime.
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Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 292 of 1,000More violent crime than nearly all US neighborhoodsi What this means
9% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Highlands as a whole, and 91% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Highlands scores 292.
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 violent crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its violent crime with the people who spend time there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy downtown or nightlife strip can show red while the homes around it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a solid connection. Compare high speed internet in Highlands, Jacksonville, FL at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Highlands in Jacksonville, 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 about violent crime in Highlands
Aggravated assaults and simple assaults both run high. In Highlands, each runs at more than double the US rate: 7.1 aggravated assaults and 23.9 simple assaults a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.6 and 9.7 nationally.
How Highlands compares within Jacksonville
High violent crime is widespread across Highlands: 50% of residents live in areas graded D or F, and the rest in areas graded C. Violent crime grades across Highlands run from C+ to D+.
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C 50%D or F 50%
Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Highlands has less violent crime than 17 of the 108 neighborhoods in Jacksonville. It covers much of the Highlands, Mid-Westside, and Brentwood areas.
Is violent crime going up in Jacksonville?
Reported violent crime in Jacksonville as a whole has fallen 12% since 2019. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 6.4 to 5.7 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7). In 2024 alone, violent crime fell 13%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
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Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Jacksonville. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Jacksonville
Violent, US
2016
-3%
+4%
2017
-2%
+4%
2018
-8%
+0%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+5%
+4%
2021
+5%
+6%
2022
-3%
+5%
2023
+1%
+2%
2024
-12%
-4%
Violent crime rates and types in Highlands
CrimeGrade™ estimates Highlands has about 32 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, more than double the rate for the US as a whole and 60% more than Jacksonville as a whole.
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Assaults
Robbery
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Violent crime here includes simple assaults, which the FBI's violent crime rate leaves out.
Assault is the most common violent crime in Highlands, about 96% of the total.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a violent crime with the people who spend time in an area, not only the people who live there. 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.
Violent crime in Highlands and nearby neighborhoods
Highlands has less violent crime than 7 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Highlands. Beside each violent crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Highlands has more violent crime than 81% of them.
Among the traits that tend to go with violent crime, one sets Highlands apart: it has 9% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally. Places like that tend to report less robbery.
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery.9% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 92% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Tree coverThe share of land under tree canopy where people live. Leafy neighborhoods tend to report less robbery.23% where people liveUS: 21%Higher than for 83% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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 assault. 81% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D+ (18 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 76% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Highlands: D+ (24 of 100).3 trips an hourUS: noneLower than for 77% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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 violent crime costs Highlands
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Highlands about $33 million a year, or $2,925 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $7.2 million, or $634 per resident.
Billed cost of violent crime per resident, per year
How CrimeGrade™ works
The violent crime CrimeGrade™ covers murder, rape, robbery and assault, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each violent crime against the people who spend time in an area, so a busy downtown is graded on its workers and visitors as well as its residents.
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.
