Photo: Don Ramey Logan · CC BY 4.0Recorded crime per resident in Palm Beach Shores fell 43% from 2023 to 2025
It has more violent crime than 69% of U.S. towns, and more property crime than 83%. Annual rates stand at 2.7 violent crimes and 23.7 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 3.4 and 17.2 in the rest of Florida. All told, Palm Beach Shores grades C− for safety: more crime per resident than 79% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported from 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 Palm Beach Shores
Palm Beach Shores reports less crime than every graded town next door
Of the 1 Florida towns on Palm Beach Shores’ borders, 1 have a Safety Grade: Riviera Beach (D−). Neighbors ↓
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 Palm Beach 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 higher than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its violent rate (2.7) 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.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Palm Beach Shores property | Rest of Florida property | Palm Beach Shores violent | Rest of Florida violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 26.5 | 22.1 | 2.3 | 4.4 |
| 2023 | 30.2 | 19.2 | 6.0 | 3.6 |
| 2024 | 21.9 | 18.4 | 0.8 | 3.5 |
| 2025 | 19.0 | 14.3 | 1.5 | 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, 2022–2025, against the rest of Florida.
Crime in Palm Beach 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 2 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Palm Beach Shores | Rest of Florida | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2.3 | 4.4 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 6.0 | 3.6 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.8 | 3.5 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.5 | 3.0 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Palm Beach Shores’ police reported 11 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 2.7 per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.4 in the rest of Florida and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
28 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.
2 violent and 26 property, as reported to the FBI by Palm Beach Shores’ police.
No one died in a crash on Palm Beach Shores’s roads in 2019–2023
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 Palm Beach Shores’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Palm Beach Shores’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.
Palm Beach Shores and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palm Beach Shores | C− | 2.7 | 23.7 |
| Riviera Beach | D− | 9.0 | 30.7 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Florida towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palm Beach Shores | C− | 2.7 | 23.7 |
| South Palm Beach | A | 0.2 | 5.7 |
| Belleair Beach | A | 0.4 | 5.0 |
| Indian Shores | A− | 0.8 | 4.7 |
| Crescent City | B | 0.4 | 11.7 |
| Belleair Bluffs | B | 1.3 | 9.2 |
The five graded Florida towns closest to Palm Beach Shores’ population (1,350), 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 Palm Beach 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 Palm Beach Shores’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (1,365 in 2025); our figure for Palm Beach Shores is 1,350 (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 Palm Beach Shores
Is Palm Beach Shores, FL safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Palm Beach Shores reports more crime per resident than 79% of U.S. towns, a C− Safety Grade. Its police reported 2.7 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 Palm Beach Shores?
2.7 violent and 23.7 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 Palm Beach Shores safer than Riviera Beach?
Riviera Beach reports more crime per resident than Palm Beach Shores: Riviera Beach grades D− for safety and Palm Beach Shores C−. Riviera Beach’s police reported 9.0 violent and 30.7 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Palm Beach Shores?
Palm Beach Shores’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Palm Beach 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.