Converse, TX has a C safety grade (50/100) with a violent crime rate of 369 per 100,000, 5% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Converse (31,189 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
Converse, TX is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 5% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Converse, TX shows violent crime at 368.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,503.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 5% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Converse's 368.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Port Isabel (368.9), Groves (367.7), Plainview (370.1), La Grange (370.1). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 368.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Converse ranks 136 of 686 — above 550 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +106.1% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 19.7% of the 584 Part I offenses reported in Converse for 2024, against a median of 14.3% across comparable Texas cities — a gap of 5.4 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 396.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 368.7 in 2024 (-7.0%). The highest observed value was 502.8 in 2021 and the lowest 368.7 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Converse'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 9.4 Census sq mi, Converse logged 49.7 property and 12.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Converse's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 584 offenses; mix index 4,144).
Violent offenses are 20% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Converse offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (9.4 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 | 469 | 1503.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 354 | 1135 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 59 | 189.2 |
| Burglary | 56 | 179.6 |
| Arson | 1 | 3.2 |
| Violent Crime | 115 | 368.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 96 | 307.8 |
| Rape | 12 | 38.5 |
| Robbery | 6 | 19.2 |
| Murder | 1 | 3.2 |
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 | 28,991 | 396.7 | 1303.9 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 29,635 | 502.8 | 1552.2 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 29,503 | 376.2 | 1667.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 30,522 | 425.9 | 1972.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 31,189 | 368.7 | 1503.7 |
Converse Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Converse's 584 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 Converse in population. Their populations run from 28,323 to 34,218, against 31,189 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Converse sits at 368.7/100K violent (grade C); the Texas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Converse at 368.7/100K violent and 1,503.7/100K property - matched below outside Texas (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
368.7/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,503.7/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-13.4% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Converse reported 115 violent crimes and 469 property crimes, for a total of 584 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Converse's violent crime rate decreased by 13.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 23.8%.
The most common crime type in Converse is larceny-theft, accounting for 60.6% of all reported crimes (354 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Converse 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 Converse's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Converse, TX rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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