Healthcare & Safety in Ponte Vedra Beach
Ponte Vedra Beach relies on nearby Jacksonville-area hospitals rather than a hospital of its own, and it is consistently one of the safest communities in this three-market set by every crime-data source checked.
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Ponte Vedra Beach has Baptist Primary Care offices (Ponte Vedra and South Ponte Vedra locations) for routine and same-day care, plus Baptist HealthPlace at Nocatee nearby, but no full-service hospital within the community itself. The nearest full hospitals are Baptist Medical Center Beaches (a short drive away) and UF Health St. Johns, a 335-bed acute-care facility on U.S. 1 in St. Augustine that has served the county since 1889.
Crime Data
CrimeGrade.org gives Ponte Vedra Beach an "A" grade for violent crime, with a rate of 1.608 per 1,000 residents putting it in the 88th percentile for safety nationally, and a total projected cost of crime for 2025 of about $1.4 million (roughly $88 per resident). NeighborhoodScout separately puts the combined violent-and-property crime rate at 4 per 1,000 -- a 1-in-236 chance of victimization -- and reports Ponte Vedra Beach as safer than about 84% of Florida's cities and towns. Both independent sources agree this is a well-below-average-crime community.
Key takeaways
- No full-service hospital sits within Ponte Vedra Beach itself; residents rely on Baptist Medical Center Beaches and UF Health St. Johns (St. Augustine) for hospital-level care, alongside local Baptist Primary Care offices.
- CrimeGrade.org gives Ponte Vedra Beach an "A" for violent crime (88th percentile nationally for safety); NeighborhoodScout independently rates it safer than about 84% of Florida communities.
- Both crime-data sources agree this is a low-crime area -- a genuine differentiator versus larger Jacksonville-area suburbs.
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