10) Riviera Beach
Riviera Beach is a city of beautiful gardens and parks with people who love outdoor sports often falling for the greenery and the semblance of ambience here. But beware that there is also a seedy side to this seemingly unalloyed beauty and that would be the city’s disproportionately high crime rate. Despite its small population of just 34,000, the city experienced 401 violent crimes last year. The number of property crimes reported was above 1,500 making the total number of crimes reported close to 2,000. For a small city of just 34,000 people, there are an outrageous number of crimes, pushing it to the bottom 4% of all American cities in terms of safety. If you live in Florida, your chance of becoming a victim of crime would be 1 in 185. If you live in Riviera Beach, however, your chance of falling victim to a crime would rise to as much as 1 in 84. These figures would make anyone revisit their decision to live here.
