Crime Rate in Temple, TX (2025)
The FBI-based Crime Index for Temple, built from FBI Crime Data Explorer reports for 2025. Scores run 0–100 (higher = safer).
Crime Index
Is Temple safe?
For 2025, Temple scores 99/100 on our FBI-based Crime Index — a grade A (very safe), which means it is one of the safer places we track. Its violent-crime rate of 9 per 100k is 0.0× the US average, with every major offense at or below the national rate. It ranks #1 safest of 72 cities in Texas.
Safer than 100% of the 759 US cities we track
Annual odds of a reported violent crime per resident
Annual odds of a reported property crime per resident
Odds are the reported 2025 rate expressed per resident, city-wide — your actual risk varies by neighborhood, time, and situation.
Treat this year's figure as incomplete. Temple's reported 2025 crime rate (71 per 100,000) is less than half its own recent average, which almost always means the agency submitted part of the year rather than that crime actually collapsed. We exclude Temple from our safest and most-dangerous rankings for 2025. The multi-year trend below is the more reliable read — see the methodology.
Crime trend in Temple
Reported crime by offense
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
- Temple
- 0 /100k · 0 total
- US average
- 4.1 /100k
- Temple
- 4 /100k · 4 total
- US average
- 35.2 /100k
- Temple
- 1 /100k · 1 total
- US average
- 47.9 /100k
- Temple
- 4 /100k · 4 total
- US average
- 228 /100k
Property crime
- Temple
- 8 /100k · 8 total
- US average
- 187 /100k
- Temple
- 47 /100k · 47 total
- US average
- 1,099 /100k
- Temple
- 7 /100k · 7 total
- US average
- 192 /100k
- Temple
- 0 /100k · 0 total
- US average
- 9.4 /100k
Rates shown are per 100,000 residents.
Homicide rate
Homicide anchors the Crime Index — see methodology.
How Temple compares
Temple against the Texas and US averages for 2025.
| Metric | Temple | Texas | United States |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crime Index (higher = safer) | 99A | 69C | 73C |
| Violent crime /100k | 9 | 345 | 315 |
| Property crime /100k | 62 | 1,794 | 1,487 |
| Homicide /100k | 0 | 4.6 | 4.1 |
| Total reported /100k | 71 | 2,139 | 1,802 |
Grade shown per index band (88–100 = A … 0–29 = F). Rates are reported offenses per 100,000 residents.
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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 →
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