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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Niceville, FL
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Niceville, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Niceville. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Niceville, FL safe?
Niceville, Florida has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 70 out of 100, grade B, above the Florida statewide score of 53. An estimated 88% 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
- 70 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 88%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 5%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 16
How Niceville compares
Niceville scores 17 points above the Florida statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Niceville 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 Niceville.
Neighborhoods inside Niceville
16 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Niceville, 11 of them mostly inside it. Among those 11, the lowest scores 26, the highest 88, and the middle 80% range from 50 to 88.
ZIP codes where Niceville residents live
Nearly all of Niceville's estimated residents live in ZIP 32578 (Safety Score 73, grade B). An estimated 54% of that ZIP's residents live outside Niceville, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 32578 profile.
Closest cities in Florida
- Destin Safety Score 55 · grade C · 8.1 miles
- Fort Walton Beach Safety Score 48 · grade C · 11 miles
- Crestview Safety Score 41 · grade C · 17 miles
- Milton Safety Score 26 · grade D · 36 miles
- Panama City Beach Safety Score 61 · grade B · 42 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Niceville
Niceville has an estimated 17,919 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 13.1 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 16 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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