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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Palatka, FL
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Palatka, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Palatka. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Palatka, FL safe?
Palatka, Florida has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 23 out of 100, grade D, below the Florida statewide score of 53. An estimated 2% 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
- 23 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 2%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 65%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 16
How Palatka compares
Palatka scores 30 points below the Florida statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Palatka lies in Putnam County, which has a county Safety Score of 12, grade F.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Palatka.
Neighborhoods inside Palatka
16 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Palatka, 7 of them mostly inside it. Among those 7, the lowest scores 0, the highest 40, and the middle 80% range from 1 to 28.
ZIP codes where Palatka residents live
Nearly all of Palatka's estimated residents live in ZIP 32177 (Safety Score 46, grade C). An estimated 67% of that ZIP's residents live outside Palatka, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 32177 profile.
Closest cities in Florida
- Green Cove Springs Safety Score 44 · grade C · 24 miles
- St. Augustine Safety Score 40 · grade C · 27 miles
- Palm Coast Safety Score 56 · grade C · 27 miles
- Gainesville Safety Score 30 · grade D · 42 miles
- Ormond Beach Safety Score 59 · grade C · 42 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Palatka
Palatka has an estimated 10,867 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 9.8 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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