A recent study from WalletHub listed Cape Coral as the second safest city in Florida, with Port Saint Lucie taking first place.<\/p>\n
WalletHub’s 2025 study compared 182 cities across America, focusing on home and community safety, natural disaster risk, and financial safety.<\/p>\n
Cape Coral residents shared their reactions to the news.<\/p>\n
“I believe it. There is a very low crime rate around this, this area of Florida, and there’s a very strong police presence as well,” said Cape Coral resident Susan Rinella.<\/p>\n
“When you come to Cape Coral, you feel like you’re in place. You know you’re just comfortable right away. That’s what I think is safe,” said Cindy Torrison, another resident.<\/p>\n
Joe Kennedy, also a resident of Cape Coral, said, “Got a great Sheriff’s Department, great police department. You know, there’s just a good presence in the whole city. And I have no qualms walking the streets at night.”<\/p>\n
“As a mom, it made me feel good about coming back, moving back after college and raising my son here. Do you agree that it’s safe? Yeah, I think for the for the most part, yeah, it’s very safe. I feel comfortable bringing my son to different parks all over town,” said Judy Rinella.<\/p>\n
Even the younger residents had their say. “There’s a few crazy people…but not that many.. I like it here,” some kids added.<\/p>\n
Cape Coral’s recognition as a safe city highlights the strong community presence and effective law enforcement efforts that contribute to residents’ sense of security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A recent study from WalletHub listed Cape Coral as the second safest city in Florida, with Port Saint…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,2631],"class_list":["post-15097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-sheriff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}