Allen, TX has a A safety grade (82/100) with a violent crime rate of 106 per 100,000, 70% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Allen, TX Crime Rate & Safety
At 113,737 residents, Allen is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against TX and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Allen, TX carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 70% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Allen, TX shows violent crime at 106.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 878.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 70% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
A safety grade
106.4/100K violent
878.3/100K property
-70% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Allen, TX
Comparable rate records
Allen's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Texas cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Allen's 106.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Miles (106.5), Iowa Park (106.2), Buffalo (106.1), Alamo Heights (106.7). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Allen sits mid-pack among comparable Texas cities
At 106.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Allen ranks 488 of 686 — above 198 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -40.9% against the cohort median of 179.9. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 82.8% of reported property offenses in Allen, against a cohort median of 71.6%. The remainder is burglary (71) and motor vehicle theft (101). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 10.8% of the 1,120 Part I offenses reported in Allen for 2024, against a median of 14.4% across comparable Texas cities — a gap of 3.5 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 97.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 106.4 in 2024 (+9.6%). The highest observed value was 115.6 in 2022 and the lowest 97.0 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Allen'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Allen's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 26.4 Census sq mi, Allen logged 37.8 property and 4.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Allen's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (74% of 1,120 offenses; mix index 5,635).
Violent offenses are only 11% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (26.4 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Both rates shifted (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-5.4%
112.5 → 106.4/100K
Property Crime Rate
+5.4%
833.5 → 878.3/100K
Property offenses lead Allen's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs TX
Property Crime
999
878.3
2058.2
Larceny-Theft
827
727.1
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
101
88.8
-
Burglary
71
62.4
-
Arson
1
0.9
-
Violent Crime
121
106.4
394.7
Aggravated Assault
83
73
-
Rape
27
23.7
-
Robbery
11
9.7
-
Murder
0
0
-
Allen Crime Trend (2020-2024)
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Allen property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Allen Police Department
Reporting agency for Allen NIBRS-participating
Allen Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Allen's 1,120 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
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
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In 2024, Allen reported 121 violent crimes and 999 property crimes, for a total of 1,120 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Allen?
From 2023 to 2024, Allen's violent crime rate decreased by 5.4%, and the property crime rate increased by 5.4%.
What is the most common crime in Allen?
The most common crime type in Allen is larceny-theft, accounting for 73.8% of all reported crimes (827 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Allen's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.