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C−
Safety in Belleview · FBI data, 2023–2025

Belleview reports more crime per resident than 76% of U.S. towns

On crimes reported to the FBI by Belleview’s police in 2023–2025, it grades C− for safety: #84 of 128 graded towns in Florida.

Violent crime
3.3
per 1,000 a year · Close to rest of FL (3.4)
U.S. (FBI national estimate) 3.6
Property crime
19.4
per 1,000 a year · Above rest of FL (17.2)
U.S. (FBI national estimate) 17.6
Crimes reported
408
60 violent · 348 property
2023–2025
Trend
▲ Rising
2023 to 2025
beyond ordinary swings

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 · In brief

What stands out about safety in Belleview

Reported crime is rising

Crime reported per resident rose from 2023 to 2025 by more than ordinary year-to-year swings, on the grade’s own score. Trend ↓

Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.

Safety Grade

What’s behind Belleview’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 higher than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its violent rate (3.3) is below the FBI’s national estimate (3.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.

Where Belleview sits
C− Violent 3.3C− Property 19.4
All U.S. towns we grade (7,426)Less crime than 24%
More reported crimeLess reported crime
Florida towns we grade (128)Less crime than 34% · #84 of 128
Places of 5,000–25,000 people (3,282)Less crime than 23%
A fairly firm grade. Built on 408 reported crimes over three years. Ordinary swings could put Belleview anywhere from C− to C.
A note on the data.Property crimes reported to the FBI went from 31 in 2023 to 177 in 2024; 2023 figures come from the FBI's Crime Data Explorer; the FBI's published 2023 table doesn't include this department; the grade uses the figures as published.

How TownRatings grades safety →

Trend

Reported crime is rising

Reported crime per resident rose from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2023–2025, against the rest of Florida.

Show as a table
YearBelleview propertyRest of Florida propertyBelleview violentRest of Florida violent
20235.419.30.33.6
202430.118.44.33.5
202522.214.35.23.0

Crimes per 1,000 residents

1,000 neighbors · one year

For every 1,000 residents, about 22 property crimes reported

And about 5 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.

Property crime (22.2)Violent crime (5.2)Everyone else

Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Belleview5.2
Rest of FL3.0
U.S. (FBI)3.3

Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Belleview22.2
Rest of FL14.3
U.S. (FBI)15.5

Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.

Violent crime

Violent crime, by year and by type

Belleview’s police reported 60 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 3.3 per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.4 in the rest of Florida and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.

What gets reported

173 crimes reported in 2025

33 violent and 140 property, as reported to the FBI by Belleview’s police.

2025 offenses reported

Larceny / theft120
Burglary20
Vehicle theft0
Aggravated assault25
Robbery2
Rape6
Homicide0
Arson1
33
violent crimes
140
property crimes

Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.

On the roads

Five people died in crashes on Belleview’s roads in 2019–2023

Belleview had 5 fatal crashes in five years, in which five people died; 1 was a pedestrian.

That is about what is typical for Florida towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (11.0 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Belleview’s size would see about 3 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Belleview’s own rate (17.2) is context, not a ranking.

5
people died in crashes, 2019–2023
1
pedestrian among them
0
cyclists among them
17.2
per 100,000 a year · Florida towns of 5,000–25,000: 11.0

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.

Next door

Belleview and its neighbors

How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.

Belleview
A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty
BelleviewC−3.319.4

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

Florida towns of a similar size

TownGradeViolentProperty
BelleviewC−3.319.4
Gulf BreezeA0.52.9
TequestaA0.63.7
Neptune BeachB1.012.3
Treasure IslandC+1.916.7
PahokeeD9.623.7

The five graded Florida towns closest to Belleview’s population (6,512), by grade.

How to read these numbers

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 Belleview. 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 Belleview’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
  • Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (6,319 in 2025); our figure for Belleview is 6,512 (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 Belleview

Is Belleview, FL safe?

On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Belleview reports more crime per resident than 76% of U.S. towns, a C− Safety Grade and #84 of 128 in Florida. Its police reported 3.3 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 Belleview?

3.3 violent and 19.4 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 crime going up or down in Belleview?

Reported crime per resident rose from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings.

Who polices Belleview?

Belleview’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Belleview”. 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.