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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Bartow, FL

Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Bartow, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.

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City Safety Score 44/100 Grade C Modeled estimate · 0 to 100, higher is safer
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Is Bartow, FL safe?

Bartow, Florida has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 44 out of 100, grade C, below the Florida statewide score of 53. An estimated 27% of its residents live in neighborhoods graded A or B, compared with 45% statewide. Safety Scores are modeled estimates, not official crime rates.

Safety Score
44 / 100
Residents in A or B neighborhoods
27%
Residents in D or F neighborhoods
40%
Scored neighborhoods
21

How Bartow compares

Bartow scores 9 points below the Florida statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.

Bartow lies in Polk County, which has a county Safety Score of 41, grade C.

County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Bartow.

Neighborhoods inside Bartow

21 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Bartow, 14 of them mostly inside it. Among those 14, the lowest scores 2, the highest 92, and the middle 80% range from 7 to 88.

Safety Score, 0–100 · shaded band: 10th–90th percentiles · whiskers: lowest and highest

Bartow

A 10% · B 17% · C 32% · D 14% · F 26%

Florida

A 25% · B 20% · C 21% · D 20% · F 15%

Estimated share of residents living in neighborhoods of each grade, in Bartow and across Florida.

ZIP codes where Bartow residents live

An estimated 99% of Bartow's residents live in ZIP 33830 (Safety Score 47, grade C). An estimated 34% of that ZIP's residents live outside Bartow, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 33830 profile.

Closest cities in Florida

  1. Winter Haven Safety Score 54 · grade C · 11 miles
  2. Lakeland Safety Score 48 · grade C · 13 miles
  3. Auburndale Safety Score 64 · grade B · 13 miles
  4. Lake Wales Safety Score 41 · grade C · 15 miles
  5. Plant City Safety Score 48 · grade C · 19 miles

Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.

About Bartow

Bartow has an estimated 22,084 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 46.3 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 21 scored Census block groups that lie at least partly within those limits.

How this page is built

ZIP codes are listed by the estimated share of the city's residents who live in them, from 2020 Census block-group population spread evenly over each block group's land. The city score is not an average of ZIP scores.

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Scores as of

Safety Scores compare areas on a 0–100 scale; higher is safer. Scores are modeled estimates, not official crime rates or reported incident counts.

City scores combine the scored neighborhoods that lie at least partly within city limits, weighted by their estimated residents inside the limits. They are not an average of the ZIP scores listed for a city.

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