Crime in Palm Bay, Florida
Major crime in Palm Bay is 38% below the U.S. rate per resident: 9% lower for persons crimes and 45% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.1% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.
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Simple assault stands out most, at 1.9 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Palm Bay for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Palm Bay
The middle half of Palm Bay residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 29 and 61; the typical (median) resident's is 42. The citywide figure (62) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5059.4%
- 50–10030.2%
- 100–2006.1%
- 200–4003.7%
- 400+0.6%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.1% in a year; across Florida it fell 7.8%
Change in expected crimes, with Florida as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Palm Bay against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
231 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Palm Bay; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Palm Bay has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, West Melbourne (5 mi), is about Palm Bay's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Palm Bay
What are the most common crimes in Palm Bay?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 583 a year), aggravated assault (about 316 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 245 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: 1.9 times the U.S. rate per resident.
How we calculated this
Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Palm Bay's figures add up its 63 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Palm Bay has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 26.4% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
- Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
- Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
- Residents: 151,077. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Palm Bay, Florida." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/fl/palm-bay
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- West Melbourne5 mi64
- Melbourne Beach8 mi97
- Indialantic8 mi48
- Melbourne9 mi126
- Indian Harbour Beach12 mi33
- Satellite Beach13 mi32
- Sebastian18 mi44
- Cocoa Beach24 mi51