Florida · City profile
Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Tavares, FL
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Tavares, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Tavares. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Tavares, FL safe?
Tavares, Florida has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 47 out of 100, grade C, below the Florida statewide score of 53. An estimated 38% 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
- 47 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 38%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 41%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 16
How Tavares compares
Tavares scores 6 points below the Florida statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Tavares lies in Lake County, which has a county Safety Score of 77, grade B.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Tavares.
Neighborhoods inside Tavares
16 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Tavares, 10 of them mostly inside it. Among those 10, the lowest scores 10, the highest 86, and the middle 80% range from 19 to 68.
ZIP codes where Tavares residents live
Listed by the estimated share of Tavares'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
- Eustis Safety Score 52 · grade C · 4.4 miles
- Mount Dora Safety Score 42 · grade C · 5.6 miles
- Leesburg Safety Score 38 · grade D · 8.6 miles
- Lady Lake Safety Score 28 · grade D · 15 miles
- Minneola Safety Score 79 · grade B · 15 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Tavares
Tavares has an estimated 22,007 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 12.2 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.
For product teams