Photo: Infrogmation of New Orleans · CC BY-SA 1.0What is recorded in Sea Ranch Lakes, and why there is no grade
The nearest town with a Safety Grade is Fort Lauderdale, 5 miles away, graded D−. Sea Ranch Lakes’ police reported to the FBI for 2023 but not 2024 or 2025, so there is no Safety Grade: the grade needs all three years, 2023–2025. There are 2 graded towns within 10 miles.
13 crimes reported in 2023
In a town this small, a few incidents move the numbers a lot, so we show counts rather than rates.
Every offense type reported in 2023
2023 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
0 violent and 13 property, as reported to the FBI by Sea Ranch Lakes’ police.
The nearest Florida towns with a Safety Grade
| Town | Grade | Distance | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Lauderdale | D− | 5 mi | 6.9 | 39.8 |
| Lighthouse Point | B− | 5 mi | 0.7 | 14.2 |
| Coral Springs | B | 11 mi | 1.3 | 10.7 |
| Plantation | C | 11 mi | 1.9 | 19.5 |
| Boca Raton | C+ | 12 mi | 1.5 | 16.2 |
| Aventura | C− | 17 mi | 1.3 | 36.0 |
Straight-line distance from the center of Sea Ranch Lakes. Nearby towns can differ a lot from Sea Ranch Lakes.
Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
No one died in a crash on Sea Ranch Lakes’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 Sea Ranch Lakes’s size would see about 0 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Sea Ranch Lakes’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.
Sea Ranch Lakes and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lauderdale-by-the-Sea | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Lauderdale-by-the-Sea has no FBI figures of its own for 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 Sea Ranch 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 Sea Ranch Lakes’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (542 in 2023); our figure for Sea Ranch Lakes is 567 (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 Sea Ranch Lakes
Is Sea Ranch Lakes, FL safe?
There is no Safety Grade for Sea Ranch Lakes. The nearest Florida towns with a grade are Fort Lauderdale (D−, 5 mi), Lighthouse Point (B−, 5 mi), Coral Springs (B, 11 mi).
Who polices Sea Ranch Lakes?
Sea Ranch Lakes’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Sea Ranch 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, 2023, 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.