Crime & Safety in Daytona Beach
Crime data sources disagree sharply on how safe Daytona Beach is -- CrimeGrade.org gives the city an overall A- grade (84th percentile for safety, a combined rate of 14.17 per 1,000 residents), while NeighborhoodScout describes Daytona Beach's crime rate as one of the highest in America, at 30 per 1,000 residents with 1-in-33 odds of being a victim of violent or property crime in a given year. These are two legitimate, differently-methodologied sources reaching very different conclusions, and the honest answer is that they disagree, not that one is simply right.
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Learn moreCrimeGrade: An Overall A- Grade
CrimeGrade.org gives Daytona Beach an overall A- grade, placing the city in the 84th percentile nationally for safety, with a combined crime rate of 14.17 per 1,000 residents in a typical year. Broken down further, CrimeGrade cites a violent-crime grade of B+ (72nd percentile for violent-crime safety) and a property-crime grade of B (66th percentile) -- meaning even CrimeGrade's own category breakdown shows both violent and property crime reading somewhat less favorably than the overall A- grade.
NeighborhoodScout: A Starkly Different Read
NeighborhoodScout describes Daytona Beach's overall crime rate as one of the highest in America compared to all communities of all sizes -- 30 crimes per 1,000 residents, with a 1-in-33 chance of being a victim of violent or property crime in a given year. That is a dramatically different conclusion than CrimeGrade's A- grade and 84th-percentile ranking.
Why the Disagreement, and How to Use This
CrimeGrade and NeighborhoodScout use different underlying data pulls, normalization methods, and comparison baselines -- a known, general source of disagreement between the two platforms, not something unique to Daytona Beach. Rather than picking whichever grade sounds better, the honest takeaway is that these two well-known, differently-methodologied sources reach opposite conclusions about the same city, and a prospective resident should not treat either one alone as settled fact. This page intentionally does not name or rank individual neighborhoods as higher- or lower-crime -- check current data for a specific address directly with these platforms, or with the Daytona Beach Police Department, before making a decision.
Key takeaways
- CrimeGrade.org: overall A- grade, 84th percentile for safety (14.17/1,000 combined rate); violent crime graded B+ (72nd percentile); property crime graded B (66th percentile).
- NeighborhoodScout: describes Daytona Beach as having one of the highest crime rates in America (30/1,000; 1-in-33 victim odds).
- These two well-known sources reach opposite overall conclusions about the same city -- both are cited here rather than picking one as authoritative.
- Even CrimeGrade's own breakdown shows violent and property crime reading less favorably than its overall A- grade.
- No specific neighborhood is named or ranked here as higher- or lower-crime -- check current, address-specific data directly before deciding.
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