Bedford, TX has a B safety grade (72/100) with a violent crime rate of 144 per 100,000, 59% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Bedford (47,900 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 2026-08-24
Bedford, TX carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 59% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Bedford, TX shows violent crime at 144.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,547 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 59% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Bedford's 144.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Troy (143.8), Idalou (144.3), Huntington (144.5), Live Oak (143.4). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 249.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 144.1 in 2024 (-42.3%). The highest observed value was 294.9 in 2021 and the lowest 144.1 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 8.5% of the 810 Part I offenses reported in Bedford for 2024, against a median of 14.4% across comparable Texas cities — a gap of 5.8 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 144.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Bedford ranks 412 of 686 — above 274 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -19.9% 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 counts dominate Bedford'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.
Across 10 Census sq mi, Bedford logged 73.9 property and 6.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Bedford's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (69% of 810 offenses; mix index 5,044).
Violent offenses are only 9% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Bedford offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (10 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 | 741 | 1547 |
| Larceny-Theft | 558 | 1164.9 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 108 | 225.5 |
| Burglary | 75 | 156.6 |
| Arson | 3 | 6.3 |
| Violent Crime | 69 | 144.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 45 | 93.9 |
| Robbery | 12 | 25.1 |
| Rape | 10 | 20.9 |
| Murder | 2 | 4.2 |
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 | 49,274 | 249.6 | 2250.7 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 48,483 | 294.9 | 2138.9 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 48,579 | 220.3 | 2227.3 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 48,193 | 244.8 | 2010.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 47,900 | 144.1 | 1547 |
Bedford Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Bedford's 810 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 Bedford in population. Their populations run from 45,059 to 49,446, against 47,900 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Bedford sits at 144.1/100K violent (grade B); the Texas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Bedford at 144.1/100K violent and 1,547/100K property - matched below outside Texas (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
144.1/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,547/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-41.1% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Bedford reported 69 violent crimes and 741 property crimes, for a total of 810 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Bedford's violent crime rate decreased by 41.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 23.1%.
The most common crime type in Bedford is larceny-theft, accounting for 68.9% of all reported crimes (558 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Bedford 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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Bedford's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Bedford, 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. Bedford is scored in the mid-size municipal band (47,900 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.