Arlington, TX has a D safety grade (31/100) with a violent crime rate of 483 per 100,000, 37% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · very large city
At 399,840 residents, Arlington is a very large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against TX and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Arlington, TX carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 37% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Arlington, TX shows violent crime at 482.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,412.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 37% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 482.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Arlington ranks 69 of 686 — above 617 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +169.9% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Arlington's 482.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Cleveland (483.6), Wortham (480.3), Palmview (478.4), Freeport (475.9). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 553.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 482.9 in 2024 (-12.7%). The highest observed value was 589.6 in 2022 and the lowest 482.9 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Arlington'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 very large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Across 95.8 Census sq mi, Arlington logged 100.6 property and 20.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Arlington's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (60% of 11,578 offenses; mix index 4,040).
Violent offenses are 17% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Arlington offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (95.8 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 9,647 | 2412.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 6,948 | 1737.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1,644 | 411.2 |
| Burglary | 1,055 | 263.9 |
| Arson | 10 | 2.5 |
| Violent Crime | 1,931 | 482.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 1,389 | 347.4 |
| Rape | 285 | 71.3 |
| Robbery | 240 | 60 |
| Murder | 17 | 4.3 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 402,700 | 553 | 2578.1 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 402,323 | 579.4 | 2578.8 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 391,591 | 589.6 | 2544.7 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 394,799 | 497.7 | 2605.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 399,840 | 482.9 | 2412.7 |
Arlington Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Arlington's 11,578 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Texas cities closest to Arlington in population. Their populations run from 219,132 to 316,108, against 399,840 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Arlington sits at 482.9/100K violent (grade D); the Texas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Arlington at 482.9/100K violent and 2,412.7/100K property - matched below outside Texas (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
482.9/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,412.7/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-3% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Arlington reported 1,931 violent crimes and 9,647 property crimes, for a total of 11,578 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Arlington's violent crime rate decreased by 3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 7.4%.
The most common crime type in Arlington is larceny-theft, accounting for 60.0% of all reported crimes (6,948 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Arlington'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 (very large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Large-city rate methodology for how Arlington's very large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Arlington, 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. Arlington is scored here as a very large city UCR reporter (399,840 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.