Photo: Hoteltwo · CC BY-SA 4.0Less property crime is recorded per resident in Crestview than in 61% of U.S. towns
The crimes the grade counts held steady per resident from 2023 to 2025. Crestview’s overall Safety Grade is B (#31 of 128 graded towns in Florida): close to the middle of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Add to that, its police logs show 1.6 violent crimes and 8.4 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the rest of Florida the numbers are 3.4 and 17.3.
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 Crestview
Among Florida towns, higher
Florida’s cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so Crestview’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 76% of the 128 Florida towns we grade, against 59% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Crestview’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; property crime is the stronger of the two.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Crestview | Rest of Florida | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.3 | 3.6 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 2.1 | 3.5 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.5 | 3.0 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Crestview’s police reported 148 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.6 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 Crestview 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 about 2 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
How crime in Crestview has moved
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| Year | Crestview property | Rest of Florida property | Crestview violent | Rest of Florida violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5.6 | 19.3 | 1.3 | 3.6 |
| 2024 | 14.1 | 18.4 | 2.1 | 3.5 |
| 2025 | 5.5 | 14.3 | 1.5 | 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.
221 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.
47 violent and 174 property, as reported to the FBI by Crestview’s police.
14 people died in crashes on Crestview’s roads in 2019–2023
Crestview had 14 fatal crashes in five years, in which 14 people died; 4 were pedestrians. 3 died in crashes on an Interstate.
That is 9.7 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, about the same as the median for Florida towns of 25,000–100,000 people (9.7, 147 towns).
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.
Crestview and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crestview | B | 1.6 | 8.4 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Florida towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crestview | B | 1.6 | 8.4 |
| Dunedin | B+ | 0.8 | 8.2 |
| Miami Lakes | B | 0.8 | 11.9 |
| West Melbourne | B− | 1.6 | 11.1 |
| Winter Park | C | 2.2 | 18.1 |
| Casselberry | C− | 2.6 | 22.1 |
The five graded Florida towns closest to Crestview’s population (31,193), 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 Crestview. 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 Crestview’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (31,585 in 2025); our figure for Crestview is 31,193 (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 Crestview
Is Crestview, FL safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Crestview reports less crime per resident than 59% of U.S. towns, a B Safety Grade and #31 of 128 in Florida. Its police reported 1.6 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 Crestview?
1.6 violent and 8.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Florida reports 3.4 and 17.3; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
How many homicides were there in Crestview in 2025?
Crestview’s police reported 0 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 0.0 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Who polices Crestview?
Crestview’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Crestview”. 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.