Photo: Philipp Michel Reichold · CC BY-SA 3.0On property crime, Indian Shores has a lower rate per resident than four in five U.S. towns
From 2023 to 2025, crimes Indian Shores’ police reported put it at A− for safety. Annual rates stand at 0.8 violent crime and 4.7 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 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 Indian Shores
Indian Shores reports less crime than every graded town next door
Of the 2 Florida towns on Indian Shores’ borders, 1 have a Safety Grade: Indian Rocks Beach (C+). Redington Shores has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025. Neighbors ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Indian Shores’ 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 | Indian Shores | Rest of Florida | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.5 | 3.6 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.0 | 3.5 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.9 | 3.0 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Indian Shores’ police reported 8 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.8 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 Indian Shores 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 | Indian Shores property | Rest of Florida property | Indian Shores violent | Rest of Florida violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5.0 | 19.3 | 1.5 | 3.6 |
| 2024 | 4.5 | 18.4 | 0.0 | 3.5 |
| 2025 | 4.5 | 14.3 | 0.9 | 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.
18 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.
3 violent and 15 property, as reported to the FBI by Indian Shores’ police.
Three people died in crashes on Indian Shores’s roads in 2019–2023
Indian Shores had 3 fatal crashes in five years, in which three people died; 1 was a cyclist.
That is about what is typical for Florida towns of 2,500–5,000 people: at their median rate (10.4 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Indian Shores’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Indian Shores’s own rate (48.3) 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.
Indian Shores and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indian Shores | A− | 0.8 | 4.7 |
| Redington Shores | — | — | — |
| Indian Rocks Beach | C+ | 1.2 | 17.1 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Redington Shores has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025.
Florida towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indian Shores | A− | 0.8 | 4.7 |
| South Palm Beach | A | 0.2 | 5.7 |
| Belleair Beach | A | 0.4 | 5.0 |
| Crescent City | B | 0.4 | 11.7 |
| Belleair Bluffs | B | 1.3 | 9.2 |
| Palm Beach Shores | C− | 2.7 | 23.7 |
The five graded Florida towns closest to Indian Shores’ population (1,167), 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 Indian Shores. 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 Indian Shores’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (3,355 in 2025); our figure for Indian Shores is 1,167 (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 Indian Shores
Is Indian Shores, FL safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Indian Shores reports less crime per resident than 81% of U.S. towns, an A− Safety Grade. Its police reported 0.8 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 Indian Shores?
0.8 violent and 4.7 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 Indian Shores safer than Indian Rocks Beach?
Indian Rocks Beach reports more crime per resident than Indian Shores: Indian Rocks Beach grades C+ for safety and Indian Shores A−. Indian Rocks Beach’s police reported 1.2 violent and 17.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Indian Shores?
Indian Shores’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Indian Shores”. 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.