Photo: Ebyabe · CC BY-SA 3.0Policing and crime in Fruitland Park, FL
The closest graded town is Leesburg, 9 miles away, at C−. Fruitland Park’s police reported to the FBI for 2023 but not 2024 or 2025, so there is no Safety Grade: the grade needs all three years, 2023–2025. A 25-mile circle around it holds 2 towns with a grade.
For every 1,000 residents, about 10 property crimes reported
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2023
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2023
Crimes reported to police in 2023 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And about 2 violent crimes, in 2023. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
The years Fruitland Park’s police reported
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| Year | Fruitland Park | Rest of Florida | Fruitland Park | Rest of Florida |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | not reported | 22.1 | not reported | 4.4 |
| 2023 | 9.9 | 19.3 | 2.1 | 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.
107 crimes reported in 2023
2023 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
19 violent and 88 property, as reported to the FBI by Fruitland Park’s police.
The nearest Florida towns with a Safety Grade
| Town | Grade | Distance | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leesburg | C− | 9 mi | 3.4 | 19.2 |
| Belleview | C− | 16 mi | 3.3 | 19.4 |
| Ocala | D | 26 mi | 4.7 | 28.2 |
| Apopka | C− | 27 mi | 4.2 | 22.1 |
| Altamonte Springs | C− | 35 mi | 3.2 | 21.1 |
| Brooksville | D | 37 mi | 5.2 | 23.0 |
Straight-line distance from the center of Fruitland Park. Nearby towns can differ a lot from Fruitland Park.
Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Six people died in crashes on Fruitland Park’s roads in 2019–2023
Fruitland Park had 6 fatal crashes in five years, in which six people died; 3 were pedestrians.
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 Fruitland Park’s size would see about 5 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Fruitland Park’s own rate (13.7) 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.
Fruitland Park and its neighbors
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Lady Lake 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 Fruitland Park. 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 Fruitland Park’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (8,877 in 2023); our figure for Fruitland Park is 9,543 (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 Fruitland Park
Is Fruitland Park, FL safe?
There is no Safety Grade for Fruitland Park. The nearest Florida towns with a grade are Leesburg (C−, 9 mi), Belleview (C−, 16 mi), Ocala (D, 26 mi).
Who polices Fruitland Park?
Fruitland Park’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Fruitland Park”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Neighbors looking out for each other in Fruitland Park.
Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2023, 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.