Photo: DanTD · CC BY-SA 4.0Per resident, Lake Hamilton records more property crime than seven in ten U.S. towns
In sum, crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025 put Lake Hamilton at C+ (#66 of 128 graded towns in Florida): more crime per resident than 63% of U.S. towns. Year on year, 2.0 violent crimes and 16.7 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 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 Lake Hamilton
1 of the 1 graded towns next door reports less crime
Of the 2 Florida towns on Lake Hamilton’s borders, 1 have a Safety Grade: Haines City (B+). Dundee 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 Lake Hamilton’s 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; violent crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its violent rate (2.0) is below the FBI’s national estimate (3.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns. Its property rate (16.7) 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 | Lake Hamilton | Rest of Florida | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.9 | 4.4 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.6 | 3.6 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.2 | 3.5 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 3.5 | 3.0 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Lake Hamilton’s police reported 11 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 2.0 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 Lake Hamilton 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 4 violent crimes, 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 | Lake Hamilton property | Rest of Florida property | Lake Hamilton violent | Rest of Florida violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 24.2 | 22.1 | 1.9 | 4.4 |
| 2023 | 15.1 | 19.2 | 0.6 | 3.6 |
| 2024 | 22.7 | 18.4 | 1.2 | 3.5 |
| 2025 | 13.4 | 14.3 | 3.5 | 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.
39 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.
8 violent and 31 property, as reported to the FBI by Lake Hamilton’s police.
Three people died in crashes on Lake Hamilton’s roads in 2019–2023
Lake Hamilton had 3 fatal crashes in five years, in which three people died.
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 Lake Hamilton’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Lake Hamilton’s own rate (33.8) 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.
Lake Hamilton and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Hamilton | C+ | 2.0 | 16.7 |
| Haines City | B+ | 1.0 | 7.2 |
| Dundee | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Dundee has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025.
Florida towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Hamilton | C+ | 2.0 | 16.7 |
| Lake Helen | A− | 1.6 | 3.3 |
| Holmes Beach | B | 1.2 | 10.3 |
| Edgewood | B− | 1.6 | 11.0 |
| Bal Harbour | C− | 1.1 | 29.5 |
| Mangonia Park | D− | 10.7 | 52.8 |
The five graded Florida towns closest to Lake Hamilton’s population (3,007), 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 Lake Hamilton. 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 Lake Hamilton’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (2,312 in 2025); our figure for Lake Hamilton is 3,007 (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 Lake Hamilton
Is Lake Hamilton, FL safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Lake Hamilton reports more crime per resident than 63% of U.S. towns, a C+ Safety Grade and #66 of 128 in Florida. Its police reported 2.0 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 Lake Hamilton?
2.0 violent and 16.7 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 Lake Hamilton safer than Haines City?
Haines City reports less crime per resident than Lake Hamilton: Haines City grades B+ for safety and Lake Hamilton C+. Haines City’s police reported 1.0 violent and 7.2 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Lake Hamilton?
Lake Hamilton’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Lake Hamilton”. 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.