Crime in West Palm Beach, Florida
Major crime in West Palm Beach is 6% above the U.S. rate per resident: 1.5 times for persons crimes and about the same 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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Robbery stands out most, at 2.2 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in West 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 West Palm Beach
The middle half of West Palm Beach residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 54 and 128; the typical (median) resident's is 82. The citywide figure (106) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5021.8%
- 50–10041.9%
- 100–20022.4%
- 200–40012.9%
- 400+1.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest at night
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.
West Palm Beach against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
142 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than West Palm Beach; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
West Palm Beach 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, Westgate (2 mi), is 34% above West Palm Beach's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in West Palm Beach
What are the most common crimes in West Palm Beach?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are theft from vehicle (about 618 a year), other larceny (about 598 a year) and aggravated assault (about 422 a year). Compared with the U.S., robbery stands out most: 2.2 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. West Palm Beach's figures add up its 75 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- West Palm Beach's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 50.4% 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: 126,467. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in West Palm Beach, Florida." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/fl/west-palm-beach
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Westgate2 mi142
- Palm Beach4 mi71
- Riviera Beach4 mi193
- Lake Clarke Shores5 mi38
- Lake Park6 mi282
- Palm Springs6 mi50
- North Palm Beach7 mi34
- Greenacres7 mi54