Austin, TX has a D safety grade (25/100) with a violent crime rate of 467 per 100,000, 33% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · very large city
At 984,613 residents, Austin 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
Austin, TX carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 33% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Austin, TX shows violent crime at 466.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,241.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 33% 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 466.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Austin ranks 78 of 686 — above 608 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +160.9% 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 Austin's 466.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Weslaco (467.0), Corsicana (468.1), Breckenridge (468.2), Livingston (469.3). 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 491.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 466.9 in 2024 (-5.0%). The highest observed value was 552.4 in 2022 and the lowest 466.9 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Austin'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 326.4 Census sq mi, Austin logged 97.8 property and 14.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Austin leans on larceny-theft at 59% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,995.
Violent offenses are only 13% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Austin offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (326.4 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 31,920 | 3241.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 21,643 | 2198.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 5,894 | 598.6 |
| Burglary | 4,383 | 445.1 |
| Arson | 151 | 15.3 |
| Violent Crime | 4,597 | 466.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 3,025 | 307.2 |
| Robbery | 841 | 85.4 |
| Rape | 666 | 67.6 |
| Murder | 65 | 6.6 |
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 | 1,000,276 | 491.7 | 3662.6 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 1,016,721 | 505.8 | 3385.2 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 965,234 | 552.4 | 3629.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 978,816 | 515.9 | 3360.6 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 984,613 | 466.9 | 3241.9 |
Austin Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Austin's 36,517 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 Austin in population. Their populations run from 269,900 to 1,514,458, against 984,613 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Austin sits at 466.9/100K violent (grade D); the Texas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Austin at 466.9/100K violent and 3,241.9/100K property - matched below outside Texas (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
466.9/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
3,241.9/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-9.5% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Austin reported 4,597 violent crimes and 31,920 property crimes, for a total of 36,517 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Austin's violent crime rate decreased by 9.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 3.5%.
The most common crime type in Austin is larceny-theft, accounting for 59.3% of all reported crimes (21,643 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Austin'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 Austin's very large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Austin, 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. Austin is scored here as a very large city UCR reporter (984,613 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.