Pompano Beach is a city of 114,400 in Broward County · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Pompano Beach?
Violent crime is high in Pompano Beach: a B-, with more violent crime than the neighborhoods where 82% of Americans live. Assaults make up 86% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury.
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Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 584 of 1,000More violent crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
18% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Pompano Beach as a whole, and 82% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Pompano Beach scores 584.
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 Pompano Beach, FL at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Pompano Beach, 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 Pompano Beach
Aggravated assaults run high in Golden Farms. In this part of west Pompano Beach, they run at more than double the rate in the rest of Pompano Beach.
Robberies run high. Pompano Beach has robberies at more than double the US rate: 1.6 a year per 1,000 residents, against 0.62 nationally.
Where violent crime is lowest and highest in Pompano Beach
Violent crime changes a lot from one part of Pompano Beach to the next: 63% of residents live in areas graded A or B, while 22% live in areas graded D or F. Violent crime grades across Pompano Beach run from A to F.
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A or B 63%C 15%D or F 22%
Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
1Bay Colony, southeastAggravated assaults run at less than half the rate in the rest of Pompano Beach.A847
2Fairview & Arvida Pompano Park, southwestAggravated assaults run about 30% lower here than in the rest of Pompano Beach.B+694
3Blue Lake-Miami & Morningstar Lake, northwestRobberies run about 40% lower here than in the rest of Pompano Beach.B643
4Cypress Plaza, southRobberies run about 30% higher here than in the rest of Pompano Beach.B635
5Golden Farms, westRobberies run at about double the rate in the rest of Pompano Beach.D169
Neighborhood areas of Pompano Beach, ranked by violent crime 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.
Violent crime rates and types in Pompano Beach
CrimeGrade™ estimates Pompano Beach has about 16 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 18% more than the US as a whole and 34% more than Florida.
All violent crime
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 Pompano Beach, about 86% of the total. Murder and rape are far rarer, but they account for 45% of the cost of violent crime here.
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.
The Pompano Beach Police Department sent the FBI no usable 2024 counts of reported rape, robbery, aggravated assault and simple assault, so CrimeGrade™ built the figures from the department's own reports for recent years, brought up to 2024.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Violent crime in Pompano Beach and nearby cities
Pompano Beach has more violent crime than 8 of its 9 nearest cities. Hillsboro Beach and Lighthouse Point have the least violent crime nearby.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Pompano Beach. Beside each violent crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with cities of similar size and density, Pompano Beach has more violent crime than 91% of them.
Among the traits that tend to go with violent crime, two set Pompano Beach apart: it has a Walk Grade of C (34 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole, and 43% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally. Even so, 51% of residents in Pompano Beach live in car-dependent areas, where most errands take a car. It also combines many jobs with busy transit: places with both tend to report more robbery than places with only one of them, and it runs high here.
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.C (34 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 84% of US city residents
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery.43% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 79% of US city residents
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Pompano Beach: C- (28 of 100).7 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 76% of US city residents
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JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more robbery.57 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 73% 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 violent crime costs Pompano Beach
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Pompano Beach about $230 million a year, or $2,014 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $47 million, or $413 per resident.
Billed cost of violent crime per resident, per year
How the cost breaks down
Pain and suffering are about 79% of that full cost.
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$18 million
$156
Rape
$3.4 million
$30
Robbery
$5.7 million
$50
Assault
$20 million
$178
Total
$47 million
$413
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.
