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Texas Cities With The Highest Violent-Crime Pressure

Decision-support ranking comparing Texas cities by current violent crime per 1,000 using the currently published coarse crime context, then routing readers into each city brief for tract context and caveats.

Cities ranked
262
Supported Texas cities with tract-backed crime context.
Leaderboard

Current order from the latest data

Ranked rows are precomputed and served as static HTML from R2.

#PlaceMetric
1 Houston
Violent Crime has declined 5% since 2021.
10.6 / 1k
2 Beaumont
Violent Crime has declined 4% since 2021.
9.4 / 1k
3 Crandall
Violent Crime has increased 31% since 2021.
9.2 / 1k
4 Humble
Violent Crime has declined 10% since 2021.
8.5 / 1k
5 Alamo
Violent Crime has increased 24% since 2021.
8.3 / 1k
6 Rockdale
Violent Crime has increased 161% since 2021.
8.1 / 1k
7 Alton
Violent Crime has increased 90% since 2021.
7.6 / 1k
8 Big Spring
Violent Crime has increased 4% since 2021.
7.5 / 1k
9 Corpus Christi
Violent Crime has declined 3% since 2021.
7.5 / 1k
10 Lubbock
Violent Crime has declined 21% since 2021.
7.0 / 1k
11 Navasota
Violent Crime has increased 34% since 2021.
6.7 / 1k
12 Port Arthur
Violent Crime has declined 9% since 2021.
6.2 / 1k
13 Amarillo
Violent Crime has declined 10% since 2021.
6.1 / 1k
14 Dallas
Violent Crime has declined 14% since 2021.
5.9 / 1k
15 Paris
Violent Crime has declined 24% since 2021.
5.6 / 1k
16 San Antonio
Violent Crime has declined 13% since 2021.
5.4 / 1k
17 Pasadena
Violent Crime has declined 9% since 2021.
5.3 / 1k
18 Galveston
Violent Crime has declined 7% since 2021.
5.2 / 1k
19 Lufkin
Violent Crime has declined 17% since 2021.
5.2 / 1k
20 Bay City
Violent Crime has increased 24% since 2021.
5.2 / 1k
21 Killeen
Violent Crime has declined 9% since 2021.
4.8 / 1k
22 La Marque
Violent Crime has declined 19% since 2021.
4.8 / 1k
23 Freeport
Violent Crime has been relatively flat over the tracked period.
4.8 / 1k
24 Ingleside
Violent Crime has increased 68% since 2021.
4.7 / 1k
25 Livingston
Violent Crime has increased 4% since 2021.
4.7 / 1k
Research notes

How to read this ranking

Research note

What this ranking means

This page is useful for a current statewide pressure screen. It compares supported Texas cities by aggregate violent-crime rate before you open the deeper city briefs. Outside Colorado, this remains statewide fallback context rather than local incident-feed depth.

Research note

What this ranking can miss

A current city rate does not tell you whether conditions are improving, how concentrated the pressure is, or which neighborhoods are driving it. Open the city brief and neighborhood pages next.