Brookshire, TX is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns a D PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 50% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Brookshire, TX shows violent crime at 528.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,414.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 50% 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.
D safety grade
528.5/100K violent
1414.9/100K property
+50% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Brookshire, TX
Position in the state cohort
Brookshire reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Texas cities
At 528.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Brookshire ranks 56 of 686 — above 630 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +195.3% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 336.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 528.5 in 2024 (+57.2%). The highest observed value was 528.5 in 2024 and the lowest 336.2 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
Brookshire's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Texas cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Brookshire's 528.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Lufkin (529.0), Killeen (527.6), Sansom Park Village (530.1), Brenham (531.0). 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 make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 27.2% of the 114 Part I offenses reported in Brookshire for 2024, against a median of 14.3% across comparable Texas cities — a gap of 12.9 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 Brookshire'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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Brookshire's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 4.3 Census sq mi, Brookshire logged 19.2 property and 7.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Brookshire leans on larceny-theft at 50% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,142.
Violent offenses are 27% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4.3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+52.1%
347.5 → 528.5/100K
Property Crime Rate
+25.3%
1129.5 → 1414.9/100K
Property offenses lead Brookshire's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs TX
Property Crime
83
1414.9
2058.2
Larceny-Theft
57
971.7
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
16
272.8
-
Burglary
10
170.5
-
Arson
1
17
-
Violent Crime
31
528.5
394.7
Aggravated Assault
21
358
-
Rape
4
68.2
-
Robbery
4
68.2
-
Murder
2
34.1
-
Brookshire Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Brookshire property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averagesRead the chart as a list
Brookshire: 529 violent, 1415 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Kermit: 154 violent, 478 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Everman: 391 violent, 1753 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Yoakum: 274 violent, 718 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Luling: 310 violent, 1170 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Caddo Mills: 118 violent, 507 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Childress: 156 violent, 519 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Wake Village: 156 violent, 885 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Livingston: 469 violent, 3303 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Brookshire Police Department
Reporting agency for Brookshire NIBRS-participating
Brookshire Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Brookshire's 114 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.
Similar-Size Cities in Texas
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In 2024, Brookshire reported 31 violent crimes and 83 property crimes, for a total of 114 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Brookshire?
From 2023 to 2024, Brookshire's violent crime rate increased by 52.1%, and the property crime rate increased by 25.3%.
What is the most common crime in Brookshire?
The most common crime type in Brookshire is larceny-theft, accounting for 50.0% of all reported crimes (57 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Brookshire is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Brookshire, TX rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.