Photo: Farragutful · CC BY-SA 4.0Recorded crime per resident in Miami Lakes fell 48% from 2023 to 2025
Violent crime is lower than in 74% of U.S. towns; property crime, lower than in only 47%. In a usual year, 0.8 violent crime and 11.9 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the rest of Florida, 3.4 and 17.3. What’s more, its Safety Grade, B (#31 of 128 graded towns in Florida), rests on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025: close to the middle of U.S. towns.
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 Miami Lakes
Miami Lakes reports less crime than every graded town next door
Of the 3 Florida towns on Miami Lakes’ borders, 1 have a Safety Grade: Hialeah (C+). Country Club and Palm Springs North are unincorporated communities (census-designated places) with no police department of their own. Neighbors ↓
Among Florida towns, higher
Florida’s cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so Miami Lakes’ place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 76% of the 128 Florida towns we grade, against 59% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A job center
Miami Lakes has 23,239 jobs based in town for 33,067 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
Reported crime is falling
Crime reported per resident fell from 2023 to 2025 by more than ordinary year-to-year swings, on the grade’s own score. Trend ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Miami Lakes’ grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Violent crime holds Miami Lakes’ grade up; property crime pulls it down. Its property rate (11.9) 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.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Miami Lakes property | Rest of Florida property | Miami Lakes violent | Rest of Florida violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 15.0 | 19.3 | 1.0 | 3.6 |
| 2024 | 13.1 | 18.4 | 1.0 | 3.5 |
| 2025 | 7.9 | 14.3 | 0.4 | 3.0 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2023–2025, against the rest of Florida.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Miami Lakes | Rest of Florida | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.0 | 3.6 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.0 | 3.5 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.4 | 3.0 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Miami Lakes’ police reported 78 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 Miami Lakes 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 fewer than 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
281 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.
14 violent and 267 property, as reported to the FBI by Miami Lakes’ police.
Nine people died in crashes on Miami Lakes’s roads in 2019–2023
Miami Lakes had 9 fatal crashes in five years, in which nine people died; 1 was a pedestrian.
That is about what is typical for Florida towns of 25,000–100,000 people: at their median rate (9.7 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Miami Lakes’s size would see about 15 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Miami Lakes’s own rate (5.7) 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.
Miami Lakes and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miami Lakes | B | 0.8 | 11.9 |
| Hialeah | C+ | 1.8 | 16.1 |
| Country Club | — | — | — |
| Palm Springs North | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Country Club and Palm Springs North are unincorporated communities (census-designated places) with no police department of their own.
Florida towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miami Lakes | B | 0.8 | 11.9 |
| Dunedin | B+ | 0.8 | 8.2 |
| Crestview | B | 1.6 | 8.4 |
| West Melbourne | B− | 1.6 | 11.1 |
| Winter Park | C | 2.2 | 18.1 |
| Casselberry | C− | 2.6 | 22.1 |
The five graded Florida towns closest to Miami Lakes’ population (33,067), 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 Miami Lakes. 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 Miami Lakes’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (33,991 in 2025); our figure for Miami Lakes is 33,067 (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 Miami Lakes
Is Miami Lakes, FL safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Miami Lakes reports less crime per resident than 59% of U.S. towns, a B Safety Grade and #31 of 128 in Florida. 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 Miami Lakes?
0.8 violent and 11.9 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Florida reports 3.4 and 17.3; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
How many homicides were there in Miami Lakes in 2025?
Miami Lakes’s police reported 0 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 0.0 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Is Miami Lakes safer than Hialeah?
Hialeah reports more crime per resident than Miami Lakes: Hialeah grades C+ for safety and Miami Lakes B. Hialeah’s police reported 1.8 violent and 16.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Miami Lakes?
Miami Lakes’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Miami Lakes”. 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.