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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Key West, FL
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Key West, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Key West. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Key West, FL safe?
Key West, Florida has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 34 out of 100, grade D, below the Florida statewide score of 53. An estimated 22% 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
- 34 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 22%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 62%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 25
How Key West compares
Key West scores 19 points below the Florida statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Key West lies in Monroe County, which has a county Safety Score of 52, grade C.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Key West.
Neighborhoods inside Key West
25 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Key West, 22 of them mostly inside it. Among those 22, the lowest scores 5, the highest 72, and the middle 80% range from 8 to 67.
ZIP codes where Key West residents live
An estimated 97% of Key West's residents live in ZIP 33040 (Safety Score 40, grade C). An estimated 24% of that ZIP's residents live outside Key West, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 33040 profile.
Closest cities in Florida
- Marathon Safety Score 47 · grade C · 47 miles
- Marco Island Safety Score 61 · grade B · 95 miles
- Florida City Safety Score 24 · grade D · 101 miles
- Homestead Safety Score 49 · grade C · 104 miles
- Naples Safety Score 49 · grade C · 111 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Key West
Key West has an estimated 25,240 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 5.6 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 25 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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