Photo: Ebyabe · CC BY-SA 3.0The crimes the grade counts fell 39% per resident in DeFuniak Springs from 2023 to 2025
It has more violent crime than 79% of U.S. towns, and more property crime than 72%. Its Safety Grade, C− (#84 of 128 graded towns in Florida), rests on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025: more crime per resident than 76% of U.S. towns. Recorded violent crimes ran at 3.7 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 17.6, against 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 DeFuniak Springs
A job center
DeFuniak Springs has 5,613 jobs based in town for 7,338 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
Reported crime is falling
Crime reported per resident fell 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.
What’s behind DeFuniak Springs’ 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; property crime is the closer of the two to typical.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | DeFuniak Springs property | Rest of Florida property | DeFuniak Springs violent | Rest of Florida violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 23.1 | 22.1 | 5.3 | 4.4 |
| 2023 | 18.9 | 19.2 | 4.7 | 3.6 |
| 2024 | 22.4 | 18.4 | 3.8 | 3.5 |
| 2025 | 11.8 | 14.3 | 2.6 | 3.0 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Florida.
Crime in DeFuniak Springs 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 3 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | DeFuniak Springs | Rest of Florida | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5.3 | 4.4 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 4.7 | 3.6 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 3.8 | 3.5 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 2.6 | 3.0 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
DeFuniak Springs’ police reported 78 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 3.7 per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.4 in the rest of Florida and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
106 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.
19 violent and 87 property, as reported to the FBI by DeFuniak Springs’ police.
12 people died in crashes on DeFuniak Springs’s roads in 2019–2023
DeFuniak Springs had 12 fatal crashes in five years, in which 12 people died; 2 were pedestrians and 1 was a cyclist. 1 died in crash on an Interstate.
That is 36.7 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for Florida towns of 5,000–25,000 people (11.0, 308 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.
DeFuniak Springs and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| DeFuniak Springs | C− | 3.7 | 17.6 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Florida towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| DeFuniak Springs | C− | 3.7 | 17.6 |
| Gulf Breeze | A | 0.5 | 2.9 |
| Longboat Key | A | 0.1 | 5.2 |
| Neptune Beach | B | 1.0 | 12.3 |
| Arcadia | C | 4.6 | 11.5 |
| Perry | D | 6.7 | 29.6 |
The five graded Florida towns closest to DeFuniak Springs’ population (7,338), 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 DeFuniak Springs. 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 DeFuniak Springs’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (7,345 in 2025); our figure for DeFuniak Springs is 7,338 (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 DeFuniak Springs
Is DeFuniak Springs, FL safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, DeFuniak Springs reports more crime per resident than 76% of U.S. towns, a C− Safety Grade and #84 of 128 in Florida. Its police reported 3.7 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 DeFuniak Springs?
3.7 violent and 17.6 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 DeFuniak Springs?
DeFuniak Springs’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “DeFuniak Springs”. 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.