Healthcare & Safety in Coral Gables
Coral Gables has a real in-city hospital anchor in Baptist Health Doctors Hospital, and Baptist Health South Florida is headquartered here. Crime data genuinely disagrees across sources -- CrimeGrade frames the city as safer than average, NeighborhoodScout frames overall and property crime as elevated -- and that disagreement is disclosed rather than resolved.
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Learn moreA real in-city hospital, and a healthcare-system headquarters
Baptist Health Doctors Hospital, at 5000 University Drive in Coral Gables, offers 24/7 emergency care and is nationally ranked #23 in Orthopedics by U.S. News & World Report -- the #1-ranked orthopedics center in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale metro -- with the Miami HEAT Sports Medicine Center located on its campus. Baptist Health South Florida, the nonprofit system that operates it (11 hospitals across Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties as of 2023), is itself headquartered in Coral Gables.
Crime data: a real, disclosed disagreement between sources
CrimeGrade.org gives Coral Gables an overall B grade (19.59 crimes per 1,000 residents, 65th-percentile safety) and rates violent crime specifically as an 85th-percentile-safe A grade (1.699 per 1,000), while flagging property crime as a below-average C grade (42nd percentile); it estimates crime costs households about $756 in 2025. NeighborhoodScout, by contrast, describes Coral Gables' overall crime rate (about 20 per 1,000, a 1-in-50 chance of victimization) as 'considerably higher than the national average across all communities,' while separately calling its violent crime rate 'about average.' The two sources do not agree on how safe Coral Gables reads overall -- check both directly and don't rely on a single source's framing.
Key takeaways
- Baptist Health Doctors Hospital (5000 University Drive) offers 24/7 emergency care and is nationally ranked #23 in Orthopedics by U.S. News -- the top-ranked orthopedics center in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale metro.
- Baptist Health South Florida, an 11-hospital nonprofit system, is headquartered in Coral Gables.
- CrimeGrade rates Coral Gables B overall (65th-percentile safety) with strong violent-crime marks (85th percentile), while NeighborhoodScout separately describes its overall crime rate as considerably above the national average -- a genuine disagreement between sources, not resolved here.
- Confirm current crime and safety data directly with CrimeGrade.org and NeighborhoodScout before making a relocation decision based on safety.
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