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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Fort Walton Beach, FL
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Fort Walton Beach, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Fort Walton Beach. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Fort Walton Beach, FL safe?
Fort Walton Beach, Florida has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 48 out of 100, grade C, below the Florida statewide score of 53. An estimated 39% 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
- 48 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 39%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 38%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 31
How Fort Walton Beach compares
Fort Walton Beach scores 5 points below the Florida statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Fort Walton Beach lies in Okaloosa County, which has a county Safety Score of 73, grade B.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Fort Walton Beach.
Neighborhoods inside Fort Walton Beach
31 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Fort Walton Beach, 18 of them mostly inside it. Among those 18, the lowest scores 7, the highest 88, and the middle 80% range from 10 to 88.
ZIP codes where Fort Walton Beach residents live
Listed by the estimated share of Fort Walton Beach's residents who live in each ZIP code. A ZIP score covers the whole ZIP, including any part outside the city.
Higher scores indicate safer modeled conditions. Scored areas are Census block groups, not a coverage percentage.
Closest cities in Florida
- Destin Safety Score 55 · grade C · 9.0 miles
- Niceville Safety Score 70 · grade B · 11 miles
- Crestview Safety Score 41 · grade C · 23 miles
- Milton Safety Score 26 · grade D · 30 miles
- Pensacola Safety Score 49 · grade C · 34 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Fort Walton Beach
Fort Walton Beach has an estimated 21,188 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 7.6 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 31 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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