Photo: FloNight (Sydney Poore) and Russell Poore · CC BY-SA 4.0For violent crime, Crescent City beats 89% of U.S. towns per resident
Taking everything together, Crescent City scores B: less crime per resident than 64% of U.S. towns, measured on crimes its police reported between 2023 and 2025. For every 1,000 residents, 0.4 violent crime and 11.7 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the rest of Florida, the figures are 3.4 and 17.2.
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’s behind Crescent City’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Violent crime holds Crescent City’s grade up; property crime pulls it down. Its property rate (11.7) is below the FBI’s national estimate (17.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Crescent City | Rest of Florida | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2.4 | 4.4 | 4.0 |
| 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
Crescent City’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 Crescent City 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 | Crescent City property | Rest of Florida property | Crescent City violent | Rest of Florida violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 20.2 | 22.1 | 2.4 | 4.4 |
| 2023 | 11.9 | 19.2 | 0.6 | 3.6 |
| 2024 | 13.5 | 18.4 | 0.6 | 3.5 |
| 2025 | 9.8 | 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, 2022–2025, against the rest of Florida.
17 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 17 property, as reported to the FBI by Crescent City’s police.
Two people died in crashes on Crescent City’s roads in 2019–2023
Crescent City had 2 fatal crashes in five years, in which two people died; 1 was a pedestrian.
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 Crescent City’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Crescent City’s own rate (20.6) 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.
Crescent City and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crescent City | B | 0.4 | 11.7 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Florida towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crescent City | B | 0.4 | 11.7 |
| Belleair Beach | A | 0.4 | 5.0 |
| South Palm Beach | A | 0.2 | 5.7 |
| Indian Shores | A− | 0.8 | 4.7 |
| Belleair Bluffs | B | 1.3 | 9.2 |
| Palm Beach Shores | C− | 2.7 | 23.7 |
The five graded Florida towns closest to Crescent City’s population (1,728), 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 Crescent City. 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 Crescent City’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (1,740 in 2025); our figure for Crescent City is 1,728 (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 Crescent City
Is Crescent City, FL safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Crescent City reports less crime per resident than 64% of U.S. towns, a B 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 Crescent City?
0.4 violent and 11.7 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.
Who polices Crescent City?
Crescent City’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Crescent City”. 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.