Crime Rate in Texas (2025)
The FBI-based Crime Index for 72 cities in Texas, plus the statewide average. Scores run 0–100 (higher = safer) and are built from FBI Crime Data Explorer reports for 2025.
Crime Index
Crime trend in Texas
Reported crime by offense
Statewide rates per 100,000 residents vs the US average.
Each bar is scaled to the US average for that offense — the dashed line marks 1×. Bars past it run above the national norm; hover a row for detail.
Violent crime
- Texas
- 4.6 /100k · 1,465 total
- US average
- 4.1 /100k
- Texas
- 48.2 /100k · 15,292 total
- US average
- 35.2 /100k
- Texas
- 52 /100k · 16,494 total
- US average
- 47.9 /100k
- Texas
- 240 /100k · 76,194 total
- US average
- 228 /100k
Property crime
- Texas
- 247 /100k · 78,454 total
- US average
- 187 /100k
- Texas
- 1,290 /100k · 409,108 total
- US average
- 1,099 /100k
- Texas
- 249 /100k · 78,861 total
- US average
- 192 /100k
- Texas
- 7.9 /100k · 2,502 total
- US average
- 9.4 /100k
How Texas compares
Texas against the US average for 2025.
| Metric | Texas | United States |
|---|---|---|
| Crime Index (higher = safer) | 69C | 73C |
| Violent crime /100k | 345 | 315 |
| Property crime /100k | 1,794 | 1,487 |
| Homicide /100k | 4.6 | 4.1 |
| Total reported /100k | 2,139 | 1,802 |
Grade shown per index band (88–100 = A … 0–29 = F). Rates are reported offenses per 100,000 residents.
Reported crime rate since 2021
Reported crime rate since 2021
All 72 cities in Texas
Ranked safest to most dangerous by Crime Index.
- 1TempleA71per 100k0.0homicide
- 2Flower MoundA616per 100k0.0homicide
- 3LeanderA529per 100k2.1homicide
- 4AllenA780per 100k0.9homicide
- 5WylieA686per 100k0.0homicide
- 6Little ElmA479per 100k4.6homicide
- 7FriscoA886per 100k1.2homicide
- 8LeagueA1,126per 100k1.7homicide
- 9MckinneyA794per 100k4.2homicide
- 10Sugar LandA1,294per 100k0.9homicide
- 11BurlesonB899per 100k3.4homicide
- 12CarrolltonB1,096per 100k1.5homicide
- 13College StationB989per 100k0.8homicide
- 14KyleB938per 100k0.0homicide
- 15PearlandB1,217per 100k1.5homicide
- 16RockwallB1,120per 100k0.0homicide
- 17Cedar ParkB1,310per 100k1.3homicide
- 18GeorgetownB935per 100k7.2homicide
- 19MansfieldB1,293per 100k2.4homicide
- 20MissionB1,298per 100k1.1homicide
- 21MissouriB1,129per 100k2.5homicide
- 22McallenB1,548per 100k0.7homicide
- 23PlanoB1,338per 100k0.7homicide
- 24RowlettB1,321per 100k1.4homicide
- 25Round RockB1,570per 100k2.1homicide
- 26RichardsonB1,634per 100k1.7homicide
- 27PharrB1,299per 100k3.7homicide
- 28Grand PrairieB1,529per 100k2.9homicide
- 29GrapevineB1,827per 100k0.0homicide
- 30New BraunfelsB1,382per 100k0.8homicide
- 31EulessB1,910per 100k1.7homicide
- 32LewisvilleB1,568per 100k4.3homicide
- 33North Richland HillsB1,921per 100k8.4homicide
- 34PflugervilleB1,778per 100k4.5homicide
- 35EdinburgB1,700per 100k0.0homicide
- 36GarlandB1,859per 100k2.4homicide
- 37BryanB1,413per 100k3.2homicide
- 38DentonB1,929per 100k2.9homicide
- 39TexasB1,535per 100k3.4homicide
- 40ConroeB1,721per 100k0.8homicide
- 41OdessaB1,441per 100k3.3homicide
- 42El PasoB1,628per 100k3.8homicide
- 43LaredoB1,468per 100k3.0homicide
- 44DesotoC1,863per 100k1.8homicide
- 45IrvingC2,022per 100k1.2homicide
- 46HarlingenC2,522per 100k1.4homicide
- 47MidlandC1,980per 100k2.0homicide
- 48BrownsvilleC1,931per 100k1.0homicide
- 49San AngeloC2,470per 100k2.0homicide
- 50TylerC2,163per 100k4.4homicide
- 51VictoriaC2,221per 100k10.6homicide
- 52LongviewC2,475per 100k5.9homicide
- 53ArlingtonC2,394per 100k3.5homicide
- 54PasadenaC2,212per 100k2.0homicide
- 55WacoC2,212per 100k5.4homicide
- 56Wichita FallsC2,527per 100k3.9homicide
- 57AbileneC2,114per 100k5.3homicide
- 58Fort WorthC2,591per 100k7.6homicide
- 59San MarcosC2,356per 100k5.3homicide
- 60KilleenC2,141per 100k11.7homicide
- 61BaytownC2,767per 100k8.1homicide
- 62MesquiteC2,657per 100k8.7homicide
- 63Port ArthurD1,928per 100k5.4homicide
- 64GalvestonD2,768per 100k14.9homicide
- 65AustinD3,514per 100k5.1homicide
- 66AmarilloD2,971per 100k5.9homicide
- 67DallasD3,647per 100k10.5homicide
- 68LubbockD3,183per 100k4.0homicide
- 69San AntonioE4,446per 100k6.8homicide
- 70Corpus ChristiE3,560per 100k4.1homicide
- 71BeaumontE3,904per 100k10.7homicide
- 72HoustonF4,714per 100k11.3homicide
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A high Crime Index score means lower reported crime relative to other US cities — it is not a guarantee of safety. Reported crime is not the same as actual crime. Research on the gap between crime that occurs and crime that gets reported to police — often called the "dark figure" of crime — estimates that roughly 40% of violent crime and about a third of property crime go unreported each year. Every index built on official statistics, including this one, necessarily undercounts real crime. That gap is exactly why homicide — the offense with the smallest dark figure — anchors the calculation instead of a more commonly reported but less reliable category like theft.
Scores on this page reflect FBI-reported data for 2025. See the full methodology →