Photo: AbeEzekowitz at English Wikipedia · CC BY 2.5On violent crime, Tarpon Springs has a higher rate per resident than 64% of U.S. towns
Per resident, the graded rate barely moved from 2023 to 2025. On crimes reported by Tarpon Springs’ police in 2023–2025, it grades C+ for safety: #66 of 128 graded towns in Florida. In a usual year, 2.4 violent crimes and 14.5 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the rest of Florida, 3.4 and 17.2.
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’s behind Tarpon Springs’ 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 (2.4) 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. Its property rate (14.5) is below the FBI’s national estimate (17.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Tarpon Springs | Rest of Florida | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2.2 | 3.6 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 2.4 | 3.5 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 2.7 | 3.0 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Tarpon Springs’ police reported 191 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 2.4 per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.4 in the rest of Florida and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Tarpon Springs 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.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Tarpon Springs property | Rest of Florida property | Tarpon Springs violent | Rest of Florida violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 14.5 | 19.3 | 2.2 | 3.6 |
| 2024 | 15.5 | 18.4 | 2.4 | 3.5 |
| 2025 | 13.5 | 14.3 | 2.7 | 3.0 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2023–2025, against the rest of Florida.
430 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.
72 violent and 358 property, as reported to the FBI by Tarpon Springs’ police.
14 people died in crashes on Tarpon Springs’s roads in 2019–2023
Tarpon Springs had 14 fatal crashes in five years, in which 14 people died; 3 were pedestrians and 3 were cyclists.
That is 10.9 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, about the same as 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.
Tarpon Springs and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tarpon Springs | C+ | 2.4 | 14.5 |
| East Lake | — | — | — |
| Palm Harbor | — | — | — |
| Holiday | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. East Lake, Palm Harbor and Holiday are unincorporated communities (census-designated places) with no police department of their own.
Florida towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tarpon Springs | C+ | 2.4 | 14.5 |
| Sebastian | B− | 1.5 | 11.1 |
| Palmetto Bay | C+ | 1.5 | 18.3 |
| Temple Terrace | C | 3.3 | 15.8 |
| Key West | C− | 3.3 | 19.7 |
| Bartow | C− | 4.1 | 16.6 |
The five graded Florida towns closest to Tarpon Springs’ population (25,602), 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 Tarpon Springs. 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 Tarpon Springs’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (26,429 in 2025); our figure for Tarpon Springs is 25,602 (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 Tarpon Springs
Is Tarpon Springs, FL safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Tarpon Springs reports more crime per resident than 63% of U.S. towns, a C+ Safety Grade and #66 of 128 in Florida. Its police reported 2.4 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 Tarpon Springs?
2.4 violent and 14.5 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.
How many homicides were there in Tarpon Springs in 2025?
Tarpon Springs’s police reported 1 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 3.8 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Who polices Tarpon Springs?
Tarpon Springs’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Tarpon Springs”. 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.