Isn’t this a question that all travelers, visitors, and future residents want to know? Florida Travel Blog decided to research the safest place in Florida. This much-debated question and two other often-asked questions were researched to find the answers.
We hear a lot about Florida on the national news front. We decided that many people would want to know Is Florida Safe?
Of course, if we are going to determine where is the safest place in Florida, we should also find out Where is the most dangerous city in Florida?
These three questions were our quest to get the most reliable answers. Sounds easy. Just a few hours digging into the latest statistics we could find, right? That’s where the problem started.
When we looked at dozens of websites and government statistics, we discovered that there were many subjective answers that were unreliable at best, and downright misleading in others. Our biggest focus was on violent crime.
Here are some of the variables we discovered when trying to get accurate information.
- Many websites used overall crime rates. We felt violent crimes were more important than pickpockets at Disney World. Murders, rapes, and armed robberies were our focus.
- Some statistics used their own algorithms that had social factors like inclusion, offensive legislation (in their opinion!) and poverty levels. None of which a person cares about when facing the decision to take their family on a vacation or deciding where to live. People want to know about crime!
- Some websites only dealt with the major cities, despite overwhelming evidence that some small towns had higher crime rates.
Facing these variables, we tried to use a commonsense approach that factored in these parameters:
- What are the violent crime rates?
- Use numbers for the top 100 cities in Florida where possible.
- Make adjustment comments when necessary.
Is Florida Safe?
We start with answering the question is Florida a safe state? This query had some of the same obstacles as the questions about the safest place in Florida. Our findings are as follows;
As a general statement, the research showed the lower the population of the state, the lower the number of crimes per 100,000 residents in the state. Places like New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine did extremely well and are very safe.
Florida has the third largest population. You would expect Florida to be high on the list of dangerous states. Not so, according to Wikipedia statistics. Florida was number 26 of the 50 states.
Other websites were not so flattering. We continued our data collection.
As you can see there is no easy answer, but we know this – every state is ranked by all studies as crimes per 100,000 residents. Can you foresee a problem with that basis for rating crimes in Florida?
Florida has 137 million people visiting each year. Theoretically, there are over 10 million extra people in Florida each month. Are there any adjustments when crime rates are tallied? The answer is a resounding NO! So, is Florida safe?
Using the ratings from various statistics, plus a little common sense, Florida is a very safe state, particularly if you consider the millions of visitors in the state at any given time.
That doesn’t mean Florida doesn’t have crime, it just means, comparatively, there is less crime than many other states. Florida, like all other states, has pockets of high criminal activity.
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