Crime in Palm Beach, Florida
Major crime in Palm Beach is 29% below the U.S. rate per resident: 52% lower for persons crimes and 24% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.3% 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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Other larceny stands out most, at 26% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Palm Beach 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 Beach
The middle half of Palm Beach residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 27 and 112; the typical (median) resident's is 41. The citywide figure (71) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5062.7%
- 50–1009.3%
- 100–20028.0%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekend daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.3% 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 Beach against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
940 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Palm Beach; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Palm Beach has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Lake Clarke Shores (3 mi), is 46% below Palm Beach's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Palm Beach
What are the most common crimes in Palm Beach?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 60 a year), shoplifting (about 22 a year) and burglary (about 14 a year). Compared with the U.S., other larceny stands out most: 26% above 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 Beach's figures add up its 12 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Palm Beach has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 0.0% 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: 9,520. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Palm Beach, Florida." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/fl/palm-beach
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Lake Clarke Shores3 mi38
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- West Palm Beach4 mi106
- Lake Worth Beach4 mi40
- Palm Springs5 mi50
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