Royal Palm Beach is a village of 40,800 in Palm Beach County · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Royal Palm Beach?
Royal Palm Beach earns an A for violent crime, safer than the neighborhoods where 59% of Americans live. Assaults make up 93% 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 889 of 1,000About as much violent crime as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
59% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Royal Palm Beach as a whole, and 41% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Royal Palm Beach scores 889.
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 Royal Palm Beach, FL at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Royal Palm 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 Royal Palm Beach
Aggravated assaults are uncommon. Royal Palm Beach has aggravated assaults at less than half the US rate: 1.0 a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.6 nationally.
Where violent crime is lowest and highest in Royal Palm Beach
Every part of Royal Palm Beach where people live grades A or B for violent crime on the national scale.
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Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
1Anthony Groves & Black Diamond, southeastClose to the rest of Royal Palm Beach on most crimes.A905
2Counterpoint Estates & Breakers West, eastClose to the rest of Royal Palm Beach on most crimes.A891
3Estates of Royal Palm Beach, southwestClose to the rest of Royal Palm Beach on most crimes.A890
4La Mancha, northClose to the rest of Royal Palm Beach on most crimes.A885
5Crestwood, westClose to the rest of Royal Palm Beach on most crimes.A881
6Saratoga at Royal Palm, northwestClose to the rest of Royal Palm Beach on most crimes.A879
7Village Walk, centralClose to the rest of Royal Palm Beach on most crimes.A851
Neighborhood areas of Royal Palm 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.
Is violent crime going up in Royal Palm Beach?
Reported violent crime in Royal Palm Beach has held about steady since 2019, within 6%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 1.4 to 1.5 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7). In 2024 alone, violent crime fell 34%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Royal Palm BeachUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police department that serves Royal Palm Beach. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Royal Palm Beach
Violent, US
2016
+134%
+4%
2017
+43%
+4%
2018
+8%
+0%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+52%
+4%
2021
+44%
+6%
2022
+45%
+5%
2023
+60%
+2%
2024
+6%
-4%
Violent crime rates and types in Royal Palm Beach
CrimeGrade™ estimates Royal Palm Beach has about 6.5 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 52% less than the US as a whole and 45% less 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 Royal Palm Beach, about 93% 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 Royal Palm Beach and nearby cities
Royal Palm Beach has less violent crime than 5 of its 9 nearest cities.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Royal Palm 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, Royal Palm Beach is safer than 66% of them.
Royal Palm Beach looks like a typical city on the traits that tend to go with violent crime.
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Royal Palm Beach: F (5 of 100).NoneUS: noneLower than for 84% of US city residents
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more robbery.36 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 61% 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 assault. 81% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D (18 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 50% of US city residents
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Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery.14% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 52% 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 Royal Palm Beach
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Royal Palm Beach about $19 million a year, or $476 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $4.6 million, or $112 per resident.
Billed cost of violent crime per resident, per year
How the cost breaks down
Pain and suffering are about 76% of that full cost.
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$960,000
$24
Rape
$700,000
$17
Robbery
$230,000
$6
Assault
$2.7 million
$66
Total
$4.6 million
$112
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.
