Pensacola ranked No. 111 on list of safest cities in Florida

 

The National Council for Home Safety and Security today announced its ranking of the Safest Cities in Florida for 2018. The top ten cities are:

1. Marco Island
2. Weston
3. Parkland
4. Satellite Beach
5. Key Biscayne
6. Oviedo
7. Punta Gorda
8. Edgewater
9. Cooper City
10. North Palm Beach

Pensacola is  ranked #111 on the list.  The City of Niceville is the safest city in Northwest Florida , #22.

 

To identify the safest cities, we reviewed the most recent FBI Uniform Crime Report statistics along with our own population data and internal research. We eliminated any cities that failed to submit a complete crime report to the FBI and removed cities with populations under 10,000.

The cities were ranked based on the number of reported violent crimes (aggravated assault, murder, rape, and robbery) and property crimes (burglary, arson, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft) per 1,000 people. These variables were then weighted, with violent crimes assigned a value 1.5 times (due to their severity) that of property crimes.

Pensacola – Population: 53,424

Violent Crime: 348
Property Crime: 2,184
Violent Crime per 1,000: 6.51
Property Crime per 1,000: 40.88

 

Rank	City	Population	Violent	Property	Violent per 1,000	Property per 1,000
			crime	crime
1	Marco Island	17,947	2	94	0.11	5.24
2	Weston	70,882	36	343	0.51	4.84
3	Parkland	31,571	18	170	0.57	5.38
4	Satellite Beach	10,737	10	106	0.93	9.87
5	Key Biscayne	13,113	2	155	0.15	11.82
6	Oviedo	39,636	78	361	1.97	9.11
7	Punta Gorda	18,466	12	212	0.65	11.48
8	Edgewater	21,729	21	248	0.97	11.41
9	Cooper City	36,900	35	438	0.95	11.87
10	North Palm Beach	13,023	11	172	0.84	13.21
11	Winter Springs	35,100	54	440	1.54	12.54
12	Port St. Lucie	182,365	270	2,419	1.48	13.26
13	Safety Harbor	17,573	20	244	1.14	13.88
14	North Port	63,386	89	861	1.4	13.58
15	Lady Lake	14,877	22	223	1.48	14.99
16	Sunny Isles Beach	22,374	24	350	1.07	15.64
17	Minneola	11,006	23	160	2.09	14.54
18	Venice	22,514	24	374	1.07	16.61
19	Wellington	63,765	112	1,020	1.76	16
20	Lighthouse Point	11,256	10	195	0.89	17.32
21	Cape Coral	179,631	224	3,081	1.25	17.15
22	Niceville	15,142	21	257	1.39	16.97
23	Naples	21,917	19	408	0.87	18.62
24	Margate	58,030	134	962	2.31	16.58
25	St. Cloud	47,289	134	747	2.83	15.8
26	Miami Lakes	31,279	31	591	0.99	18.89
27	Coral Springs	131,159	209	2,411	1.59	18.38
28	Dunedin	36,334	54	695	1.49	19.13
29	Lake Mary	16,506	29	311	1.76	18.84
30	Sebastian	24,441	42	467	1.72	19.11
31	Coconut Creek	60,633	73	1,249	1.2	20.6
32	Haines City	23,278	61	434	2.62	18.64
33	Jupiter	64,273	147	1,261	2.29	19.62
34	Fernandina Beach	12,489	34	243	2.72	19.46
35	Rockledge	26,967	83	512	3.08	18.99
36	Palm Bay	108,823	516	1,841	4.74	16.92
37	Clermont	33,158	53	720	1.6	21.71
38	Tamarac	65,516	133	1,387	2.03	21.17
39	Miramar	140,288	446	2,740	3.18	19.53
40	Pembroke Pines	169,156	342	3,750	2.02	22.17
41	Lynn Haven	20,496	53	439	2.59	21.42
42	Royal Palm Beach	38,353	126	789	3.29	20.57
43	Tavares	15,741	64	310	4.07	19.69
44	Port Orange	60,546	61	1,477	1.01	24.39
45	Hialeah Gardens	24,370	39	581	1.6	23.84
46	Hialeah	239,451	580	5,597	2.42	23.37
47	Tampa	375,904	1,906	7,800	5.07	20.75
48	North Lauderdale	44,229	209	941	4.73	21.28
49	Palm Beach Gardens	53,811	75	1,421	1.39	26.41
50	Greenacres City	40,088	145	946	3.62	23.6