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Safety in Jacksonville

Jacksonville ranks #53 of 134 US cities for staying safe, with a safety score of 61 — Fun. That puts it in the 61st percentile nationally and #5 of 7 in Florida.

safety score
61
Fun
National rank
#53 of 134
In Florida
#5 of 7
Percentile
61st

The typical city scores 50 for staying safe; Jacksonville sits 11 points above the median.

How safety is measured

Reported violent and property crime rates.

The safety score is the flip side of our crime measure — 100 minus the raw crime score — so a city with less of it scores higher.

Data sources: FBI Crime Data Explorer and city open-data crime portals.

Full methodology → Glossary The raw measurement is part of the Data plan →

Ranked around Jacksonville

  1. T#51 Fort Worth, TX 62
  2. T#51 Riverside, CA 62
  3. #53 Jacksonville, FL — this page 61
  4. #54 Boulder, CO 60
  5. T#55 Bakersfield, CA 59

See the full leaderboard — The safest cities in America →

Top US cities for staying safe

  1. #1 Jackson, WY 100
  2. #2 Gilbert, AZ 99
  3. T#3 Boise, ID 98
  4. T#3 Santa Clarita, CA 98
  5. #5 Irvine, CA 97

More about Jacksonville

Jacksonville scores 19 overall (Quiet) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: