Bayou Vista, TX has a A+ safety grade (90/100) with a violent crime rate of 57 per 100,000, 84% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Bayou Vista's UCR row covers a small municipal population (1,766). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to TX and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Bayou Vista, TX is safer than most U.S. cities, and earns an A+ PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 84% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Bayou Vista, TX shows violent crime at 56.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 453 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 84% 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.
Small-count caution
Bayou Vista reported 1 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 1,766. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Bayou Vista's 56.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Franklin (56.5), Flower Mound (57.2), Bullard (57.2), Highland Park (57.4). 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
At 56.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Bayou Vista ranks 572 of 686 — above 114 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -68.5% 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 is 50.0% of reported property offenses in Bayou Vista, against a cohort median of 71.6%. The remainder is burglary (3) and motor vehicle theft (1). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 11.1% of the 9 Part I offenses reported in Bayou Vista for 2024, against a median of 14.4% across comparable Texas cities — a gap of 3.2 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 60.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 56.6 in 2024 (-6.9%). The highest observed value was 60.8 in 2020 and the lowest 0.0 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Bayou Vista'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.
Based on 1 reported violent incidents in a population of 1,766. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Across 0.3 Census sq mi, Bayou Vista logged 25.2 property and 3.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Bayou Vista leans on larceny-theft at 44% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,333.
Violent offenses are only 11% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Bayou Vista offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (0.3 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 | 8 | 453 |
| Larceny-Theft | 4 | 226.5 |
| Burglary | 3 | 169.9 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1 | 56.6 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 1 | 56.6 |
| Rape | 1 | 56.6 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
| Aggravated Assault | 0 | 0 |
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 | 1,644 | 60.8 | 1155.7 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 1,647 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 1,748 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 1,753 | 0 | 114.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 1,766 | 56.6 | 453 |
Bayou Vista Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Bayou Vista's 9 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 Bayou Vista in population. Their populations run from 1,711 to 1,810, against 1,766 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, Bayou Vista reported 1 violent crimes and 8 property crimes, for a total of 9 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Bayou Vista's violent crime rate data is unavailable, and the property crime rate increased by 297%.
The most common crime type in Bayou Vista is larceny-theft, accounting for 44.4% of all reported crimes (4 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Bayou Vista's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Bayou Vista's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Bayou Vista, TX rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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