Crime rate & statistics
Jacksonville Crime Rate & Safety Statistics
Where Jacksonville lands against national norms, framed as odds you can actually picture.
Key indices
Jacksonville crime at a glance
Index values are scaled so that 100 equals the U.S. average.
Your odds
Estimated victimization risk
Calibrated against national benchmark rates and expressed as everyday odds.
Trend
Is crime rising or falling in Jacksonville?
Reported incidents per month over the most recent year of data.
Context
How to read these numbers
Jacksonville's overall crime rate sits modestly above the national average, shaped largely by property offenses spread across its huge footprint. Violent crime, while a real concern in specific neighborhoods, is geographically lopsided — a few urban-core and Eastside corridors account for a disproportionate share, leaving large suburban and beachside areas comparatively low-risk.
We take Jacksonville's crime indices and estimate rates per 100,000 residents using national benchmarks, then translate those into everyday odds such as an annual “1 in N” chance. The index scale sets 100 as the national average, and each area receives an A-to-F letter grade drawn from a curve calibrated across U.S. cities so the comparisons hold up nationally.