Big Sandy, TX has a C safety grade (49/100) with a violent crime rate of 449 per 100,000, 28% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Big Sandy's UCR row covers a small municipal population (1,335). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to TX and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Big Sandy, TX is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 28% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Big Sandy, TX shows violent crime at 449.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 749.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 28% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Big Sandy reported 6 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 1,335. 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 37.5% of the 16 Part I offenses reported in Big Sandy for 2024, against a median of 14.3% across comparable Texas cities — a gap of 23.2 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 449.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Big Sandy ranks 89 of 686 — above 597 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +151.2% 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 Big Sandy's 449.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Orange (451.4), Grand Saline (454.0), Brownfield (443.5), Tulia (455.5). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 80.0% of reported property offenses in Big Sandy, against a cohort median of 71.6%. The remainder is burglary (1) and motor vehicle theft (1). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Big Sandy'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 6 reported violent incidents in a population of 1,335. 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 1.6 Census sq mi, Big Sandy logged 6.2 property and 3.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Big Sandy leans on larceny-theft at 50% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,594.
Violent offenses are 38% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small municipal.
Big Sandy offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (1.6 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 | 10 | 749.1 |
| Larceny-Theft | 8 | 599.3 |
| Burglary | 1 | 74.9 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1 | 74.9 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 6 | 449.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 5 | 374.5 |
| Rape | 1 | 74.9 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 1,418 | 0 | 493.7 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 1,418 | 141 | 1339.9 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 1,295 | 695 | 1003.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 1,314 | 76.1 | 1826.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 1,335 | 449.4 | 749.1 |
Big Sandy Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Big Sandy's 16 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 Big Sandy in population. Their populations run from 1,311 to 1,365, against 1,335 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, Big Sandy reported 6 violent crimes and 10 property crimes, for a total of 16 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Big Sandy's violent crime rate increased by 490.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 59%.
The most common crime type in Big Sandy is larceny-theft, accounting for 50.0% of all reported crimes (8 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Big Sandy'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 Big Sandy's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Big Sandy, TX rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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