Big Spring, TX has a F safety grade (6/100) with a violent crime rate of 762 per 100,000, 117% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Big Spring (21,249 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 2026-09-05
Big Spring, TX is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 117% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Big Spring, TX shows violent crime at 762.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,786 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 117% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 762.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Big Spring ranks 25 of 686 — above 661 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +326.0% 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 Spring's 762.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Corrigan (773.0), Crosbyton (776.3), Navasota (785.1), Los Fresnos (793.9). 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 512.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 762.4 in 2024 (+48.8%). The highest observed value was 762.4 in 2024 and the lowest 512.5 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 21.5% of the 754 Part I offenses reported in Big Spring for 2024, against a median of 14.3% across comparable Texas cities — a gap of 7.2 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.
Property counts dominate Big Spring'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 19.1 Census sq mi, Big Spring logged 30.9 property and 8.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Big Spring leans on larceny-theft at 53% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,495.
Violent offenses are 21% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Big Spring offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (19.1 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 | 592 | 2786 |
| Larceny-Theft | 399 | 1877.7 |
| Burglary | 129 | 607.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 64 | 301.2 |
| Arson | 2 | 9.4 |
| Violent Crime | 162 | 762.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 136 | 640 |
| Rape | 13 | 61.2 |
| Robbery | 10 | 47.1 |
| Murder | 3 | 14.1 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 28,294 | 512.5 | 2876.9 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 28,166 | 717.2 | 2336.1 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 25,254 | 696.9 | 2177.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 24,933 | 734 | 2230 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 21,249 | 762.4 | 2786 |
Big Spring Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Big Spring's 754 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 Spring in population. Their populations run from 20,474 to 22,140, against 21,249 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Big Spring sits at 762.4/100K violent (grade F); the Texas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Big Spring at 762.4/100K violent and 2,786/100K property - matched below outside Texas (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
762.4/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,786/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Big Spring reported 162 violent crimes and 592 property crimes, for a total of 754 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Big Spring's violent crime rate increased by 3.9%, and the property crime rate increased by 24.9%.
The most common crime type in Big Spring is larceny-theft, accounting for 52.9% of all reported crimes (399 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Big Spring 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 Big Spring's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Big Spring, TX rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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