Photo: JonathanPuello · CC BY-SA 4.0Per resident, Stuart records more crime than 78% of U.S. towns
The Safety Grade comes out at C−, drawn from crimes Stuart’s police reported through 2023 to 2025: #95 of 128 graded towns in Florida. Violence and property crime split as 3.6 violent crimes and 19.4 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 3.4 and 17.2 in the rest of Florida. Even so, the rate the grade counts dropped 36% 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 Stuart
A job center
Stuart has 29,251 jobs based in town for 19,451 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
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 Stuart’s 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; property crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its violent rate (3.6) 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
Show as a table
| Year | Stuart property | Rest of Florida property | Stuart violent | Rest of Florida violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 22.7 | 19.2 | 4.6 | 3.6 |
| 2024 | 21.5 | 18.4 | 3.1 | 3.5 |
| 2025 | 14.2 | 14.3 | 3.1 | 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, 2023–2025, against the rest of Florida.
Crime in Stuart 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 3 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
Show as a table
| Year | Stuart | Rest of Florida | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 4.6 | 3.6 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 3.1 | 3.5 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 3.1 | 3.0 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Stuart’s police reported 210 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 3.6 per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.4 in the rest of Florida and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
349 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.
63 violent and 286 property, as reported to the FBI by Stuart’s police.
19 people died in crashes on Stuart’s roads in 2019–2023
Stuart had 15 fatal crashes in five years, in which 19 people died; 1 was a pedestrian and 2 were cyclists.
That is 20.5 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for Florida towns of 5,000–25,000 people (11.0, 308 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.
Stuart and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stuart | C− | 3.6 | 19.4 |
| North River Shores | — | — | — |
| Jensen Beach | — | — | — |
| Rio | — | — | — |
| Palm City | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. North River Shores, Jensen Beach, Rio and Palm City are unincorporated communities (census-designated places) with no police department of their own.
Florida towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stuart | C− | 3.6 | 19.4 |
| Punta Gorda | A− | 0.5 | 6.2 |
| Maitland | C+ | 1.9 | 13.8 |
| Seminole | C+ | 1.6 | 17.6 |
| Lake Wales | C | 3.2 | 16.8 |
| Cocoa | D | 8.8 | 26.9 |
The five graded Florida towns closest to Stuart’s population (19,451), 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 Stuart. 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 Stuart’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (20,114 in 2025); our figure for Stuart is 19,451 (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 Stuart
Is Stuart, FL safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Stuart reports more crime per resident than 78% of U.S. towns, a C− Safety Grade and #95 of 128 in Florida. Its police reported 3.6 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 Stuart?
3.6 violent and 19.4 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.
Who polices Stuart?
Stuart’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Stuart”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
Heads-up board
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Please don’t name or describe individuals. In an emergency, call 911.
Neighbors looking out for each other in Stuart.
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.