Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Philipp Michel Reichold assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 2.5Belleair Beach records less violent crime per head than 88% of U.S. towns
It grades A for safety on crimes Belleair Beach’s police reported from 2023 to 2025. Add to that, the local count comes to 0.4 violent crime and 5.0 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 3.4 and 17.2 in the rest of Florida.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of FL” is every other Florida city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What stands out about safety in Belleair Beach
Belleair Beach reports less crime than every graded town next door
Of the 1 Florida towns on Belleair Beach’s borders, 1 have a Safety Grade: Clearwater (C). Neighbors ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Belleair Beach’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are lower than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the stronger of the two.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Belleair Beach | Rest of Florida | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.6 | 3.6 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.6 | 3.5 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Belleair Beach’s police reported 2 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.4 per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.4 in the rest of Florida and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Belleair Beach per 1,000 residents
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And no violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Belleair Beach property | Rest of Florida property | Belleair Beach violent | Rest of Florida violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6.8 | 19.2 | 0.6 | 3.6 |
| 2024 | 3.7 | 18.4 | 0.6 | 3.5 |
| 2025 | 4.3 | 14.3 | 0.0 | 3.0 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2023–2025, against the rest of Florida.
7 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
0 violent and 7 property, as reported to the FBI by Belleair Beach’s police.
No one died in a crash on Belleair Beach’s roads in 2019–2023
That is about what is typical for Florida towns of 2,500–5,000 people: at their median rate (10.4 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Belleair Beach’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Belleair Beach’s own rate (0.0) is context, not a ranking.
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
Belleair Beach and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belleair Beach | A | 0.4 | 5.0 |
| Clearwater | C | 2.8 | 15.8 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Florida towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belleair Beach | A | 0.4 | 5.0 |
| South Palm Beach | A | 0.2 | 5.7 |
| Indian Shores | A− | 0.8 | 4.7 |
| Crescent City | B | 0.4 | 11.7 |
| Belleair Bluffs | B | 1.3 | 9.2 |
| Palm Beach Shores | C− | 2.7 | 23.7 |
The five graded Florida towns closest to Belleair Beach’s population (1,581), by grade.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- One number for all of Belleair Beach. A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Belleair Beach’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (1,611 in 2025); our figure for Belleair Beach is 1,581 (2025 Census estimate).
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in Belleair Beach
Is Belleair Beach, FL safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Belleair Beach reports less crime per resident than 86% of U.S. towns, an A Safety Grade. Its police reported 0.4 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.4 in the rest of Florida and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Belleair Beach?
0.4 violent and 5.0 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Florida reports 3.4 and 17.2; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Is Belleair Beach safer than Clearwater?
Clearwater reports more crime per resident than Belleair Beach: Clearwater grades C for safety and Belleair Beach A. Clearwater’s police reported 2.8 violent and 15.8 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Belleair Beach?
Belleair Beach’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Belleair Beach”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.