[FromCTtoFL]

Originally Posted by jambo101

No guarantees about safety as crime can happen anywhere.

I agree with that 100% and I think sometimes the worst crimes happen where no one ever expects. I lived in a sleepy little town in CT where the City-Data crime rate is a 25 (ranges between 17-29, with 293.1 considered U.S. average). Nothing EVER happens there...I mean NEVER. Just about 5 miles from my front door, in the next (sleepy-little) town over, a 20 y.o killed 26 people in an elementary school, 20 of which were children aged 6-7 years old. You just never, ever, EVER know for sure if/when/where some awful crime - beyond comprehension - will occur. There are NO guarantees at all

[1insider]

Originally Posted by FromCTtoFL

I agree with that 100% and I think sometimes the worst crimes happen where no one ever expects. I lived in a sleepy little town in CT where the City-Data crime rate is a 25 (ranges between 17-29, with 293.1 considered U.S. average). Nothing EVER happens there...I mean NEVER. Just about 5 miles from my front door, in the next (sleepy-little) town over, a 20 y.o killed 26 people in an elementary school, 20 of which were children aged 6-7 years old. You just never, ever, EVER know for sure if/when/where some awful crime - beyond comprehension - will occur. There are NO guarantees at all

The incidences per 100,000 metric that City Data uses is not a good measure of the safety of small towns. One murder of a tourist by his buddy while on vacation in my small town will get our crime number looking like DC or Detroit.

[expatCA]

Originally Posted by 1insider

The incidences per 100,000 metric that City Data uses is not a good measure of the safety of small towns. One murder of a tourist by his buddy while on vacation in my small town will get our crime number looking like DC or Detroit.

Plus crime is usually located in specific areas and virtually any city can have very bad and very good sections, so research is necessary. There are no guarantees regardless of the stats.

[kyle19125]

Crime stats are compiled by zip code typically. I live in a "high crime" zip code where one area a few miles from where I live accounts for 80% of the crime in the area. My subdivision of 55 homes hasn't had a single burglary/breaking and entering in over a decade, and near as can be established it's happened once since the neighborhood was built out nearly 40 years ago. Once can fret about stats but it's important to know the components within them and the reality attached, otherwise you're eliminating a lot of terrific places to live based on some flawed metrics.

[Spring Hillian]

Originally Posted by 1insider

The incidences per 100,000 metric that City Data uses is not a good measure of the safety of small towns. One murder of a tourist by his buddy while on vacation in my small town will get our crime number looking like DC or Detroit.

Then use any other website that offers crime statistics as they all come up with the same final results since the data used is compiled from verifiable sources.

[Fredesch]

Neighborhoods change over time, a nice neighborhood can turn into the 'hood over time and bad urban 'hoods can get gentrified become a desirable fashionable place. I lived in an far suburb in Viriginia in the 90s and they only crime I saw was a hijacked car veering onto a neighbors yard and two kids bailing out and running. It was happenstance that the kids took our exit and turned of the road at our feeder and turned down our street. Criminals have cars and can go wherever you live. That neighborhood is now terrible.

[1insider]

Originally Posted by Spring Hillian

Then use any other website that offers crime statistics as they all come up with the same final results since the data used is compiled from verifiable sources.

They are all flawed as they all use a similar metric. I stand by the statement that measuring crime by incidents per X population can be misleading for towns with far less than X population.

[Joey Falcon]

The further you get from Orlando the more crime drops.

[rnc2mbfl]

Stiltsville?

[Tamika929]

crime is always up in florida because so many people move to florida every single day.