Photo: Excel23 · CC BY-SA 4.0Per resident, Neptune Beach records less violent crime than 69% of U.S. towns
Per resident, the graded rate barely moved from 2023 to 2025. Its letter overall is B (#37 of 128 graded towns in Florida): close to the middle of U.S. towns, from crimes its police reported through 2023 to 2025. Behind the grade sit 1.0 violent crime and 12.3 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 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 Neptune Beach
Neptune Beach reports less crime than every graded town next door
Of the 3 Florida towns on Neptune Beach’s borders, 1 have a Safety Grade: Atlantic Beach (B−). Jacksonville has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025. Jacksonville Beach reported to the FBI for 2025 but not 2023 or 2024. Neighbors ↓
Among Florida towns, higher
Florida’s cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so Neptune Beach’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 71% of the 128 Florida towns we grade, against 56% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Neptune Beach’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Violent crime holds Neptune Beach’s grade up; property crime pulls it down. Its property rate (12.3) 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 | Neptune Beach | Rest of Florida | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.3 | 4.5 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.9 | 3.6 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.3 | 3.5 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.7 | 3.0 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Neptune Beach’s police reported 20 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.0 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 Neptune Beach 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 | Neptune Beach property | Rest of Florida property | Neptune Beach violent | Rest of Florida violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 11.9 | 22.1 | 1.3 | 4.5 |
| 2023 | 12.6 | 19.3 | 0.9 | 3.6 |
| 2024 | 11.7 | 18.4 | 1.3 | 3.5 |
| 2025 | 12.6 | 14.3 | 0.7 | 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.
93 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.
5 violent and 88 property, as reported to the FBI by Neptune Beach’s police.
No one died in a crash on Neptune Beach’s roads in 2019–2023
That is fewer than 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 Neptune Beach’s size would see about 4 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Neptune Beach’s own rate (0.0) 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.
Neptune Beach and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neptune Beach | B | 1.0 | 12.3 |
| Atlantic Beach | B− | 1.6 | 12.7 |
| Jacksonville | — | — | — |
| Jacksonville Beach | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Jacksonville has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025. Jacksonville Beach reported to the FBI for 2025 but not 2023 or 2024.
Florida towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neptune Beach | B | 1.0 | 12.3 |
| Gulf Breeze | A | 0.5 | 2.9 |
| Longboat Key | A | 0.1 | 5.2 |
| DeFuniak Springs | C− | 3.7 | 17.6 |
| Belleview | C− | 3.3 | 19.4 |
| Perry | D | 6.7 | 29.6 |
The five graded Florida towns closest to Neptune Beach’s population (7,020), 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 Neptune Beach. 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 Neptune Beach’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (6,991 in 2025); our figure for Neptune Beach is 7,020 (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 Neptune Beach
Is Neptune Beach, FL safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Neptune Beach reports less crime per resident than 56% of U.S. towns, a B Safety Grade and #37 of 128 in Florida. Its police reported 1.0 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 Neptune Beach?
1.0 violent and 12.3 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 Neptune Beach safer than Atlantic Beach?
Atlantic Beach reports more crime per resident than Neptune Beach: Atlantic Beach grades B− for safety and Neptune Beach B. Atlantic Beach’s police reported 1.6 violent and 12.7 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Neptune Beach?
Neptune Beach’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Neptune Beach”. 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.