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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Cape Canaveral, FL
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Cape Canaveral, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Cape Canaveral. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Cape Canaveral, FL safe?
Cape Canaveral, Florida has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 28 out of 100, grade D, below the Florida statewide score of 53. Under 1% 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
- 28 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- <1%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 70%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 11
How Cape Canaveral compares
Cape Canaveral scores 25 points below the Florida statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Cape Canaveral lies in Brevard County, which has a county Safety Score of 62, grade B.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Cape Canaveral.
Neighborhoods inside Cape Canaveral
11 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Cape Canaveral, 8 of them mostly inside it. Among those 8, the lowest scores 9, the highest 54, and the middle 80% range from 10 to 53.
ZIP codes where Cape Canaveral residents live
Nearly all of Cape Canaveral's estimated residents live in ZIP 32920 (Safety Score 31, grade D). An estimated 15% of that ZIP's residents live outside Cape Canaveral, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 32920 profile.
Closest cities in Florida
- Cocoa Beach Safety Score 49 · grade C · 4.1 miles
- Cocoa Safety Score 33 · grade D · 9.1 miles
- Rockledge Safety Score 66 · grade B · 9.2 miles
- Satellite Beach Safety Score 80 · grade A · 15 miles
- Titusville Safety Score 50 · grade C · 19 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Cape Canaveral
Cape Canaveral has an estimated 10,014 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 2.2 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 11 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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