Turkey Creek High School, Historic · Photo: Ebyabe · CC BY-SA 3.0Crime in Plant City: the figures, without a grade
The FBI holds no crime figures for Plant City alone for 2023–2025, so it can’t be graded. The nearest town with a Safety Grade is Lakeland, 10 miles away, graded C−. Within a 25-mile drive lie 6 towns that have a grade.
For every 1,000 residents, about 20 property crimes reported
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2022
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2022
Crimes reported to police in 2022 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And about 5 violent crimes, in 2022. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
The years Plant City’s police reported
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| Year | Plant City | Rest of Florida | Plant City | Rest of Florida |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 19.6 | 22.2 | 5.4 | 4.4 |
| 2023 | not reported | 19.2 | not reported | 3.6 |
| 2024 | not reported | 18.4 | not reported | 3.5 |
| 2025 | not reported | 14.3 | not reported | 3.0 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents, against the rest of Florida. A year the department didn’t report in full is a gap, not a zero.
991 crimes reported in 2022
2022 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
214 violent and 777 property, as reported to the FBI by Plant City’s police.
The nearest Florida towns with a Safety Grade
| Town | Grade | Distance | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeland | C− | 10 mi | 3.8 | 17.3 |
| Temple Terrace | C | 16 mi | 3.3 | 15.8 |
| Bartow | C− | 20 mi | 4.1 | 16.6 |
| Auburndale | C | 21 mi | 2.0 | 19.3 |
| Tampa | C | 22 mi | 4.1 | 13.6 |
| Winter Haven | C | 24 mi | 2.8 | 15.7 |
Straight-line distance from the center of Plant City. Nearby towns can differ a lot from Plant City.
Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
46 people died in crashes on Plant City’s roads in 2019–2023
Plant City had 46 fatal crashes in five years, in which 46 people died; 12 were pedestrians and 3 were cyclists. 7 died in crashes on an Interstate.
That is 22.5 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for Florida towns of 25,000–100,000 people (9.7, 147 towns).
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.
Plant City and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeland | C− | 3.8 | 17.3 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
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 Plant City. 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 Plant City’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (39,615 in 2022); our figure for Plant City is 44,118 (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 Plant City
Is Plant City, FL safe?
There is no Safety Grade for Plant City. Plant City has no FBI crime figures of its own for 2023–2025, so there is nothing to grade it on. The nearest Florida towns with a grade are Lakeland (C−, 10 mi), Temple Terrace (C, 16 mi), Bartow (C−, 20 mi).
Who polices Plant City?
Plant City’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Plant City”. 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, 2022, 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.