2025 Compare Cities Crime:
Jacksonville Beach, FL vs Sarasota, FL

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Highlights
- Sarasota has 24% less violent crime than Jacksonville Beach.
- Sarasota has 2% less property crime than Jacksonville Beach.
 Jacksonville Beach, FLSarasota, FLUnited States
 Violent Crime  Unlock26.922.7
 Property Crime61.6  Unlock35.4

Crime is ranked on a scale of 1 (low crime) to 100 (high crime)

Reviews for Jacksonville Beach    8 Reviews

Moved here from Los Angeles. Couldn’t be happier - great climate, great people, low taxes and cost of living. No complaints  More

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Over 15 years ago

Great lifestyle! Residential beach community with one of the lowest chances of receiving a direct hurricane hit along the Florida coastline. You will find fabulous  More

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Over 16 years ago

Never realized how much cooler living by the beach can  More

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Reviews for Sarasota    105 Reviews

Sarasota is my home from birth but those of us who have lived here long enough to have seen the devolution of what was once an easy to navigate, clean, low crime beach  More

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Starting to love Sarasota: Wife and I moved to Osprey- a small suburb between Sarasota and Venice. We're about 13 miles to downtown Sarasota, so not "city dwellers".   More

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As always, anyone considering moving to anyplace new, including Sarasota, needs to come down and spend a month or two before actually moving here. The city is overrun  More

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Cities with the Least Crime Near Jacksonville Beach, FloridaCrime Index
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 Fernandina Beach, FL24.25
 Sawgrass, FL24.8
 Neptune Beach, FL25.2
 Nocatee, FL25.45
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