Photo: Oscar Flowers · CC BY-SA 3.0Less violent crime is recorded per resident in Hialeah Gardens than in 79% of U.S. towns
Annual rates stand at 0.7 violent crime and 12.6 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 3.4 and 17.2 in the rest of Florida. Weighing it all, Hialeah Gardens earns B for safety (#34 of 128 graded towns in Florida), with close to the middle of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported over 2023 to 2025.
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 Hialeah Gardens
Hialeah Gardens reports less crime than every graded town next door
Of the 2 Florida towns on Hialeah Gardens’ borders, 1 have a Safety Grade: Hialeah (C+). Medley has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025. Neighbors ↓
Among Florida towns, higher
Florida’s cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so Hialeah Gardens’ place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 73% of the 128 Florida towns we grade, against 58% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Hialeah Gardens’ grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Violent crime holds Hialeah Gardens’ grade up; property crime pulls it down. Its property rate (12.6) 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 | Hialeah Gardens | Rest of Florida | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2.7 | 4.5 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.9 | 3.6 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.6 | 3.5 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.5 | 3.0 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Hialeah Gardens’ police reported 45 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.7 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 Hialeah Gardens 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 1 violent crime, 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 | Hialeah Gardens property | Rest of Florida property | Hialeah Gardens violent | Rest of Florida violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 17.9 | 22.1 | 2.7 | 4.5 |
| 2023 | 12.1 | 19.3 | 0.9 | 3.6 |
| 2024 | 10.2 | 18.4 | 0.6 | 3.5 |
| 2025 | 15.2 | 14.3 | 0.5 | 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, 2022–2025, against the rest of Florida.
369 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.
12 violent and 357 property, as reported to the FBI by Hialeah Gardens’ police.
11 people died in crashes on Hialeah Gardens’s roads in 2019–2023
Hialeah Gardens had 9 fatal crashes in five years, in which 11 people died; 5 were pedestrians.
That is 9.6 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, about the same as 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.
Hialeah Gardens and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hialeah Gardens | B | 0.7 | 12.6 |
| Hialeah | C+ | 1.8 | 16.1 |
| Medley | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Medley has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025.
Florida towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hialeah Gardens | B | 0.7 | 12.6 |
| Lynn Haven | B+ | 1.1 | 7.0 |
| Sunny Isles Beach | B | 1.2 | 10.8 |
| Auburndale | C | 2.0 | 19.3 |
| Bartow | C− | 4.1 | 16.6 |
| Fort Walton Beach | C− | 4.9 | 16.0 |
The five graded Florida towns closest to Hialeah Gardens’ population (22,777), 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 Hialeah Gardens. 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 Hialeah Gardens’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (23,422 in 2025); our figure for Hialeah Gardens is 22,777 (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 Hialeah Gardens
Is Hialeah Gardens, FL safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Hialeah Gardens reports less crime per resident than 58% of U.S. towns, a B Safety Grade and #34 of 128 in Florida. Its police reported 0.7 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 Hialeah Gardens?
0.7 violent and 12.6 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.
Is Hialeah Gardens safer than Hialeah?
Hialeah reports more crime per resident than Hialeah Gardens: Hialeah grades C+ for safety and Hialeah Gardens B. Hialeah’s police reported 1.8 violent and 16.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Hialeah Gardens?
Hialeah Gardens’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Hialeah Gardens”. 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.