College Station, TX has a B safety grade (73/100) with a violent crime rate of 171 per 100,000, 52% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
College Station, TX Crime Rate & Safety
At 126,702 residents, College Station is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against TX and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
College Station, TX carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 52% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, College Station, TX shows violent crime at 170.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,102.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 52% 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.
B safety grade
170.5/100K violent
1102.6/100K property
-52% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for College Station, TX
Comparable rate records
College Station's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Texas cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to College Station's 170.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Gun Barrel City (170.4), Del Rio (170.9), Burleson (171.1), Graham (169.4). 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 197.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 170.5 in 2024 (-13.8%). The highest observed value was 210.5 in 2022 and the lowest 170.5 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
College Station sits mid-pack among comparable Texas cities
At 170.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, College Station ranks 360 of 686 — above 326 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -5.2% 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 College Station'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
College Station's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 51.2 Census sq mi, College Station logged 27.3 property and 4.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
College Station's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (66% of 1,613 offenses; mix index 4,685).
Violent offenses are only 13% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (51.2 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-19.1%
1362.8 → 1102.6/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-0.9%
172 → 170.5/100K
Property offenses lead College Station's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs TX
Property Crime
1,397
1102.6
2058.2
Larceny-Theft
1,068
842.9
-
Burglary
205
161.8
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
124
97.9
-
Arson
1
0.8
-
Violent Crime
216
170.5
394.7
Aggravated Assault
123
97.1
-
Rape
75
59.2
-
Robbery
15
11.8
-
Murder
3
2.4
-
College Station Crime Trend (2020-2024)
College Station property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
College Station Police Department
Reporting agency for College Station NIBRS-participating
College Station Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind College Station's 1,613 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
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Texas cities closest to College Station in population. Their populations run from 116,881 to 136,046, against 126,702 here. Or use our
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College Station at 170.5/100K violent and 1,102.6/100K property - matched below outside Texas (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, College Station reported 216 violent crimes and 1,397 property crimes, for a total of 1,613 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in College Station?
From 2023 to 2024, College Station's violent crime rate decreased by 0.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 19.1%.
What is the most common crime in College Station?
The most common crime type in College Station is larceny-theft, accounting for 66.2% of all reported crimes (1,068 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: College Station's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 College Station, TX rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.