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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Palmetto, FL
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Palmetto, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Palmetto. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Palmetto, FL safe?
Palmetto, Florida has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 43 out of 100, grade C, below the Florida statewide score of 53. An estimated 26% 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
- 43 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 26%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 65%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 16
How Palmetto compares
Palmetto scores 10 points below the Florida statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Palmetto lies in Manatee County, which has a county Safety Score of 61, grade B.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Palmetto.
Neighborhoods inside Palmetto
16 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Palmetto, 10 of them mostly inside it. Among those 10, the lowest scores 20, the highest 88, and the middle 80% range from 22 to 88.
ZIP codes where Palmetto residents live
Nearly all of Palmetto's estimated residents live in ZIP 34221 (Safety Score 58, grade C). An estimated 71% of that ZIP's residents live outside Palmetto, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 34221 profile.
Closest cities in Florida
- Bradenton Safety Score 37 · grade D · 2.7 miles
- Sarasota Safety Score 31 · grade D · 13 miles
- Gulfport Safety Score 37 · grade D · 18 miles
- St. Petersburg Safety Score 45 · grade C · 19 miles
- Pinellas Park Safety Score 50 · grade C · 24 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Palmetto
Palmetto has an estimated 13,682 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 5.4 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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