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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Lake City, FL
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Lake City, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Lake City. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Lake City, FL safe?
Lake City, Florida has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 32 out of 100, grade D, below the Florida statewide score of 53. An estimated 7% 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
- 32 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 7%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 75%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 20
How Lake City compares
Lake City scores 21 points below the Florida statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Lake City lies in Columbia County, which has a county Safety Score of 28, grade D.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Lake City.
Neighborhoods inside Lake City
20 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Lake City, 10 of them mostly inside it. Among those 10, the lowest scores 1, the highest 48, and the middle 80% range from 6 to 45.
ZIP codes where Lake City residents live
Listed by the estimated share of Lake City'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
- Alachua Safety Score 78 · grade B · 30 miles
- Gainesville Safety Score 30 · grade D · 40 miles
- Green Cove Springs Safety Score 44 · grade C · 58 miles
- Jacksonville Safety Score 51 · grade C · 61 miles · county profile
- Palatka Safety Score 23 · grade D · 70 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Lake City
Lake City has an estimated 12,783 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 11.8 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 20 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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