Alamo, TX has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 897 per 100,000, 155% above the national average.

FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city

Alamo, TX Crime Rate & Safety

Alamo (20,734 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then TX and national benchmarks.

Data updated 2026-09-05

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F
Safety grade
3,491.8
Property / 100K
897.1
Violent / 100K
21K
Population

Alamo, TX is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 155% above the U.S. average

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Alamo, TX shows violent crime at 897.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,491.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 155% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.

  • F safety grade
  • 897.1/100K violent
  • 3491.8/100K property
  • +155% vs U.S.

What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Alamo, TX

Position in the state cohort

Alamo reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Texas cities

At 897.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Alamo ranks 11 of 686 — above 675 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +401.3% against the cohort median of 178.9. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.

2020–2024 direction

The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher

Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 567.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 897.1 in 2024 (+58.0%). The highest observed value was 897.1 in 2024 and the lowest 567.8 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.

Comparable rate records

Alamo's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Texas cohort

The nearest comparable 2024 records to Alamo's 897.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Raymondville (881.2), Snyder (873.4), Crandall (922.5), Corpus Christi (863.6). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.

Offense mix

Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix

Violent offenses are 20.4% of the 910 Part I offenses reported in Alamo for 2024, against a median of 14.3% across comparable Texas cities — a gap of 6.2 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.

Property-offense composition

Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort

Larceny-theft is 84.4% of reported property offenses in Alamo, against a cohort median of 71.6%. The remainder is burglary (63) and motor vehicle theft (50). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.

Property counts dominate Alamo's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.

Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.

Alamo's 2024 municipal footprint

Across 7.7 Census sq mi, Alamo logged 94.6 property and 24.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.

Alamo's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (67% of 910 offenses; mix index 4,897).

Violent offenses are 20% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.

Alamo offense mix (2024)

Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (7.7 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.

Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)

Violent Crime Rate
+55.6%
576.6 → 897.1/100K
Property Crime Rate
-17.3%
4224.8 → 3491.8/100K

Property offenses lead Alamo's 2024 record

Offense Count Rate /100K
Property Crime 724 3491.8
Larceny-Theft 611 2946.9
Burglary 63 303.8
Motor Vehicle Theft 50 241.1
Arson 1 4.8
Violent Crime 186 897.1
Aggravated Assault 159 766.9
Rape 21 101.3
Robbery 5 24.1
Murder 1 4.8

Alamo Crime Trend (2020-2024)

Alamo property crime rate trend

Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR

Property crime rate (2024)
3,491.8/100K 17.3% vs 2023
2,5003,0003,5004,0004,500 20202021202220232024 3,492

Alamo violent crime rate trend

Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR

Violent crime rate (2024)
897.1/100K 55.6% vs 2023
5006007008009001,000 20202021202220232024 897
Year Coverage Population Violent Rate Property Rate
2020 Comparable 20,078 567.8 3700.6
2021 Comparable 20,779 678.6 3046.3
2022 Comparable 20,383 574 4121.1
2023 Comparable 20,640 576.6 4224.8
2024 Comparable 20,734 897.1 3491.8

How Alamo sits among TX peers

POP-MIDCOHORT-SIZEVIOL-HIGHPROP-HIGHQUAD-HHGRADE-FNIBRSUCR-2024
Alamo vs. similar-size TX cities, violent vs. property crime. X axis violent crime per 100K, Y axis property crime per 100K, split by the national averages. 9 cities; the anchor is ringed. Alamo vs. similar-size TX cities, violent vs. property crime 39 969 Violent crime per 100K → 427 3,771 Property crime per 100K → Alamo SAFEST HIGHEST CRIME PROPERTY-HEAVY VIOLENT-HEAVY Safety grade A / B C D / F
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Read the chart as a list
  • Alamo: 897 violent, 3492 property per 100,000 (grade F)
  • Murphy: 43 violent, 474 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
  • Manvel: 88 violent, 1080 property per 100,000 (grade A)
  • Portland: 156 violent, 844 property per 100,000 (grade A)
  • Crowley: 195 violent, 1493 property per 100,000 (grade B)
  • Angleton: 254 violent, 952 property per 100,000 (grade B)
  • Seagoville: 108 violent, 1525 property per 100,000 (grade A)
  • Red Oak: 187 violent, 2089 property per 100,000 (grade B)
  • Big Spring: 762 violent, 2786 property per 100,000 (grade F)

Alamo Police Department

Reporting agency for Alamo NIBRS-participating

Alamo Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Alamo's 910 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).

This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.

Similar-Size Cities in Texas

Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Texas cities closest to Alamo in population. Their populations run from 20,300 to 21,249, against 20,734 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.

Alamo's closest TX violent-rate matches

Alamo sits at 897.1/100K violent (grade F); the Texas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.

Out-of-state peers for Alamo

Alamo at 897.1/100K violent and 3,491.8/100K property - matched below outside Texas (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).

More about Alamo's 2024 record

How many crimes were reported in Alamo?

In 2024, Alamo reported 186 violent crimes and 724 property crimes, for a total of 910 reported offenses.

Is crime increasing or decreasing in Alamo?

From 2023 to 2024, Alamo's violent crime rate increased by 55.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 17.3%.

What is the most common crime in Alamo?

The most common crime type in Alamo is larceny-theft, accounting for 67.1% of all reported crimes (611 incidents in 2024).

Mid-size read: Alamo figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.

Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.

Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.

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Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Alamo, TX rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.

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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Alamo is scored in the mid-size municipal band (20,734 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.