Healthcare & Safety in New Port Richey
New Port Richey has real hospital access close to home, but its crime-safety picture is genuinely disputed between major ranking sources -- worth understanding both readings rather than picking one.
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Learn moreTwo hospitals serve the immediate area
Morton Plant North Bay Hospital, a 226-bed not-for-profit BayCare facility and West Pasco County's only nonprofit community hospital, sits within New Port Richey city limits at 6600 Madison St. HCA Florida Trinity Hospital, a 278-bed all-private-room facility a few miles away, serves the broader Pasco-Pinellas-Hillsborough tri-county area with 24/7 emergency care, surgical oncology, and the only Level II NICU in Pasco County.
Crime-safety sources disagree sharply
CrimeGrade.org gives New Port Richey an overall A grade, placing it in the 87th percentile for safety nationally (ahead of 87% of cities), with violent crime in the 85th percentile. NeighborhoodScout, by contrast, reports an overall crime rate of 29 per 1,000 residents -- among the higher rates nationally for cities of its size, with roughly a 1-in-35 chance of being a crime victim. This is a genuine disagreement between two major crime-data sources, not a case where one is simply outdated; prospective residents should weigh both readings rather than relying on either alone.
No specific neighborhood-level crime naming
Both CrimeGrade and NeighborhoodScout report normal block-level variance within the city -- residents generally consider the east side of the city relatively safer, per CrimeGrade’s own mapping -- but this site does not name or rank specific neighborhoods as more or less safe. Use the sources’ own mapping tools directly for block-level detail.
Key takeaways
- Morton Plant North Bay Hospital (BayCare, 226 beds) sits within city limits; HCA Florida Trinity Hospital (278 beds) serves the wider tri-county area a few miles away.
- Crime-safety sources disagree substantially: CrimeGrade rates New Port Richey in the 87th percentile for safety (A grade), while NeighborhoodScout reports one of the higher crime rates nationally for a city its size (29/1,000, 1-in-35 odds).
- This is a genuine cross-source disagreement worth weighing directly, not a case of outdated data on one side.
- This site does not name or rank specific neighborhoods by safety; use CrimeGrade’s or NeighborhoodScout’s own mapping tools for block-level detail.
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