Photo: Ebyabe · CC BY-SA 4.0What is recorded in South Daytona, and why there is no grade
Within a 25-mile drive lie 2 towns that have a grade. Lake Helen, 19 miles away, is the nearest town with a Safety Grade (A−). The FBI holds no crime figures for South Daytona alone for 2023–2025, so it can’t be graded.
For every 1,000 residents, about 14 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 2 violent crimes, in 2022. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
The years South Daytona’s police reported
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| Year | South Daytona | Rest of Florida | South Daytona | Rest of Florida |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 13.5 | 22.2 | 1.9 | 4.5 |
| 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.
211 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.
26 violent and 185 property, as reported to the FBI by South Daytona’s police.
The nearest Florida towns with a Safety Grade
| Town | Grade | Distance | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Helen | A− | 19 mi | 1.6 | 3.3 |
| Flagler Beach | B | 23 mi | 2.1 | 7.5 |
| Sanford | D | 31 mi | 5.6 | 23.2 |
| Lake Mary | B | 34 mi | 1.2 | 8.8 |
| Crescent City | B | 36 mi | 0.4 | 11.7 |
| Oviedo | B+ | 37 mi | 1.1 | 5.8 |
Straight-line distance from the center of South Daytona. Nearby towns can differ a lot from South Daytona.
Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Seven people died in crashes on South Daytona’s roads in 2019–2023
South Daytona had 6 fatal crashes in five years, in which seven people died.
That is about what 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 South Daytona’s size would see about 7 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so South Daytona’s own rate (10.3) 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.
South Daytona and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Port Orange | — | — | — |
| Daytona Beach | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Port Orange and Daytona Beach have no FBI figures of their 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 South Daytona. 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 South Daytona’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (13,712 in 2022); our figure for South Daytona is 13,894 (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 South Daytona
Is South Daytona, FL safe?
There is no Safety Grade for South Daytona. South Daytona 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 Lake Helen (A−, 19 mi), Flagler Beach (B, 23 mi), Sanford (D, 31 mi).
Who polices South Daytona?
South Daytona’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “South Daytona”. 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.