Brenham, TX has a D safety grade (29/100) with a violent crime rate of 531 per 100,000, 51% above the national average.
Brenham (19,775 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then TX and national benchmarks.
Brenham, TX carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 51% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Brenham, TX shows violent crime at 531 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,037.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 51% 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.
The verdict
Brenham earns a D safety grade: violent crime runs 51% above the U.S. average, placing it among the highest-crime cities in the country.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 281.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 531.0 in 2024 (+88.5%). The highest observed value was 531.0 in 2024 and the lowest 281.7 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 531.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Brenham ranks 53 of 686 — above 633 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +196.7% 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 Brenham's 531.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Sansom Park Village (530.1), Lufkin (529.0), Brookshire (528.5), Killeen (527.6). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 20.7% of the 508 Part I offenses reported in Brenham for 2024, against a median of 14.3% across comparable Texas cities — a gap of 6.4 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 83.1% of reported property offenses in Brenham, against a cohort median of 71.6%. The remainder is burglary (40) and motor vehicle theft (28). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Brenham'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.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 403 | 2037.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 335 | 1694.1 |
| Burglary | 40 | 202.3 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 28 | 141.6 |
| Arson | 2 | 10.1 |
| Violent Crime | 105 | 531 |
| Aggravated Assault | 93 | 470.3 |
| Rape | 11 | 55.6 |
| Robbery | 1 | 5.1 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 18,106 | 281.7 | 1701.1 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 17,940 | 468.2 | 1204 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 18,785 | 367.3 | 1474.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 19,047 | 320.3 | 1664.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 19,775 | 531 | 2037.9 |
Brenham's crime figures on this page originate from Brenham Police Department's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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 Brenham in population. Their populations run from 19,170 to 20,329, against 19,775 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
These Texas cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Brenham's 531/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Mid-size read: Brenham 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 Brenham's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Brenham, 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. Brenham is scored in the mid-size municipal band (19,775 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.