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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Wildwood, FL
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Wildwood, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Wildwood. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Wildwood, FL safe?
Wildwood, Florida has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 65 out of 100, grade B, above the Florida statewide score of 53. An estimated 73% 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
- 65 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 73%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 25%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 17
How Wildwood compares
Wildwood scores 12 points above the Florida statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Wildwood lies in Sumter County, which has a county Safety Score of 38, grade D.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Wildwood.
Neighborhoods inside Wildwood
17 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Wildwood, 7 of them mostly inside it. Among those 7, the lowest scores 8, the highest 79, and the middle 80% range from 21 to 77.
ZIP codes where Wildwood residents live
Listed by the estimated share of Wildwood'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
- Lady Lake Safety Score 28 · grade D · 8.5 miles
- Leesburg Safety Score 38 · grade D · 8.6 miles
- Tavares Safety Score 47 · grade C · 17 miles
- Eustis Safety Score 52 · grade C · 20 miles
- Groveland Safety Score 77 · grade B · 20 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Wildwood
Wildwood has an estimated 19,031 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 56.3 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 17 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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