Crime & Safety in Port St. Lucie
Port St. Lucie consistently ranks among Florida's safer large cities across multiple independent crime-data aggregators, with both violent and property crime running well below national averages. This holds up as a genuine strength of the city rather than a single-source claim.
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Learn moreViolent crime
Port St. Lucie recorded 267 reported violent crimes in the most recent full year of data (117 per 100,000 residents), about 68.5% below the national average, per crime-data aggregation reported through 2025 FBI-sourced figures (released September 2025, reflecting 2024 calendar-year data). The city's violent crime rate of 9.1 compares to a national average figure of 22.7 on the same aggregator's scale.
Property crime
Property crime totaled 1,743 reported incidents (762 per 100,000 residents), about 61% below the U.S. average, with a rate of 22.3 versus a national average of 35.4 on the same scale.
Overall safety ranking
Combining violent and property crime, Port St. Lucie's overall crime rate runs about 62.2% below the national average, placing it in the 91st percentile for safety among cities nationally per one aggregator -- safer than roughly 91% of U.S. cities of comparable and larger size. For context, the city's base record separately cites a Florida-specific safety rank of 34th out of 160 Florida cities/places tracked by HomeSnacks, consistent directionally though not the identical metric.
Caveats on the data
These figures come from third-party aggregators (CrimeGrade, HomeSnacks, AreaVibes) built on FBI/local law-enforcement reporting rather than a direct FBI UCR/NIBRS pull performed this session -- multiple independent aggregators agree directionally on the same conclusion (well below national averages), which strengthens confidence in the overall pattern even though exact per-100,000 figures vary slightly by aggregator and reporting year.
Key takeaways
- Violent crime runs about 68.5% below the national average; property crime about 61% below -- both figures from FBI-sourced 2024 calendar-year data released September 2025.
- Overall crime is about 62.2% below the national average, placing the city in roughly the 91st percentile nationally for safety per one aggregator.
- Multiple independent aggregators (CrimeGrade, HomeSnacks, AreaVibes) agree directionally, strengthening confidence in the below-average-crime conclusion even where exact figures differ slightly.
- For a city of its size (250,000+), Port St. Lucie consistently ranks among Florida's and the nation's safer large cities.
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