Crime in Texas (2024)

Texas agencies reported 761,544 offenses to the FBI in 2024: 121,909 violent crimes, 636,876 property crimes and 2,759 arsons, across 1,228 reporting agencies.

Per 100,000 residents

Against a 2024 population of 31,318,578 (Census estimates). A floor: Texas agencies that did not report contribute nothing.

389.3

Violent per 100k

2033.5

Property per 100k

5.2

Murder per 100k

330.3

Motor vehicle theft per 100k

Offenses by category

Offense	Offenses	Share
Murder & nonnegligent manslaughter	1,614	0.2%
Rape	15,577	2.0%
Robbery	19,833	2.6%
Aggravated assault	84,885	11.1%
Burglary	89,017	11.7%
Larceny-theft	444,425	58.4%
Motor vehicle theft	103,434	13.6%
Arson	2,759	0.4%

By county

Counties with sufficient reporting coverage (243 of Texas's counties).

Largest reporting agencies

Agency	Violent	Property	Total
Houston Police Department	26,628	99,572	126,428
San Antonio Police Department	8,998	70,023	79,198
Dallas Police Department	8,698	44,295	53,142
Harris County Sheriff's Office	7,666	33,050	40,742
Austin Police Department	4,597	31,920	36,668
Fort Worth Police Department	4,572	26,930	31,632
Corpus Christi Police Department	2,730	9,519	12,313
El Paso Police Department	1,890	10,142	12,101
Arlington Police Department	1,931	9,647	11,588
Harris County Constable:	1,179	9,333	10,552
Lubbock Police Department	2,216	7,095	9,374
Bexar County Sheriff's Office	1,061	6,223	7,302
Amarillo Police Department	1,402	5,392	6,852
Montgomery County Sheriff's Office	1,091	5,336	6,430
Irving Police Department	709	5,661	6,379

How to read these numbers

Counts are offenses reported by law-enforcement agencies to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program for 2024(Return A master file, which incorporates the FBI's own NIBRS-to-SRS conversion for agencies that report incident-based data). Nothing here is estimated: an agency that did not report contributes nothing, so totals are floors, not universes.

County figures use headquarters-county assignment: an agency's offenses count in the county where it is headquartered. Sheriff and state-police activity can span county lines; a county's figure is best read as "offenses reported by agencies based here." Counties where reporting agencies cover less than half of the policed population get no page; between 50% and 80% the page carries a visible partial-coverage notice.

Rates per 100,000 residentsuse Census Population Estimates (PEP) for the same year as the crime data. They appear only where the population served by agencies headquartered in a county is within 10% of the population that lives there. Where a police force covers several counties — the NYPD polices five boroughs from its Manhattan headquarters — the two geographies disagree, and a rate would be wrong by several times over in both directions. Those counties show counts without a rate rather than a number that looks authoritative and isn't.

Because non-reporting agencies contribute nothing, every rate here is a floor: the true rate is at least this high. Rates are most comparable between places with similar reporting coverage, which each page states.

Violent crime = murder + rape + robbery + aggravated assault. Property crime = burglary + larceny-theft + motor vehicle theft. Arson is tracked separately (from the FBI's de-duplicated SRS/NIBRS arson data) and is excluded from the property composite, following FBI practice. Aggravated assault excludes simple assault.

These figures will not match the FBI's published national estimates(which impute for non-reporting agencies) or the 12-month quarterly trend windows elsewhere on this site — different universes, both documented.