3) Daytona Beach
Daytona Beach has one of the highest crime rates in Florida- in fact, higher than 97% of Florida and double the state’s average. It’s one of the 100 most dangerous cities in the U.S. Your chance of being a victim of a violent crime is 1 in 13. The chance of your being a victim of a property crime is 1 in 16. Daytona Beach experienced 805 violent crimes last year. The number of property crimes taking place every year is close to four thousand making the total number of crimes per year close to five thousand. The annual crime rate is 76 per 1000 people, which means 98% of the cities in the U.S. are safer than Daytona Beach. This puts in in the bottom 2% of all the cities in the country which is why it made it onto this list.
