Photo: FLboats · CC BY-SA 4.0DeLand has no grade of its own; Lake Helen, 4 miles away, is the nearest that does
Widen the search to 25 miles and 4 graded towns turn up. No FBI crime figures of its own exist for DeLand for 2023–2025, so there is nothing to grade. Within 10 miles, Lake Helen is the one town with a Safety Grade.
For every 1,000 residents, about 18 property crimes reported
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2022
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2022
Crimes reported to police in 2022 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And about 4 violent crimes, in 2022. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
The years DeLand’s police reported
Show as a table
| Year | DeLand | Rest of Florida | DeLand | Rest of Florida |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 18.0 | 22.2 | 3.8 | 4.5 |
| 2023 | not reported | 19.2 | not reported | 3.6 |
| 2024 | not reported | 18.4 | not reported | 3.5 |
| 2025 | not reported | 14.3 | not reported | 3.0 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents, against the rest of Florida. A year the department didn’t report in full is a gap, not a zero.
872 crimes reported in 2022
2022 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
153 violent and 719 property, as reported to the FBI by DeLand’s police.
The nearest Florida towns with a Safety Grade
| Town | Grade | Distance | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Helen | A− | 4 mi | 1.6 | 3.3 |
| Sanford | D | 16 mi | 5.6 | 23.2 |
| Lake Mary | B | 18 mi | 1.2 | 8.8 |
| Longwood | C+ | 23 mi | 2.4 | 13.1 |
| Casselberry | C− | 25 mi | 2.6 | 22.1 |
| Oviedo | B+ | 26 mi | 1.1 | 5.8 |
Straight-line distance from the center of DeLand. Nearby towns can differ a lot from DeLand.
Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
32 people died in crashes on DeLand’s roads in 2019–2023
DeLand had 30 fatal crashes in five years, in which 32 people died; 8 were pedestrians and 3 were cyclists.
That is 15.4 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, above 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.
DeLand and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| West DeLand | — | — | — |
| DeLand Southwest | — | — | — |
| Lake Helen | A− | 1.6 | 3.3 |
| Deltona | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. West DeLand and DeLand Southwest are unincorporated communities (census-designated places) with no police department of their own. Deltona has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025.
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 DeLand. 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 DeLand’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (39,924 in 2022); our figure for DeLand is 46,346 (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 DeLand
Is DeLand, FL safe?
There is no Safety Grade for DeLand. DeLand has no FBI crime figures of its own for 2023–2025, so there is nothing to grade it on. The nearest Florida towns with a grade are Lake Helen (A−, 4 mi), Sanford (D, 16 mi), Lake Mary (B, 18 mi).
Who polices DeLand?
DeLand’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “DeLand”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Neighbors looking out for each other in DeLand.
Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2022, 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.