Cross Roads, TX has a B safety grade (73/100) with a violent crime rate of 49 per 100,000, 86% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Cross Roads's UCR row covers a small municipal population (2,036). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to TX and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Cross Roads, TX is safer than most U.S. cities, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 86% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Cross Roads, TX shows violent crime at 49.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,554 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 86% 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.
Small-count caution
Cross Roads reported 1 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 2,036. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Cross Roads's 49.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Lumberton (48.9), Northeast (49.3), Clyde (49.5), Friona (49.7). 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 49.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Cross Roads ranks 586 of 686 — above 100 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -72.7% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 1.9% of the 53 Part I offenses reported in Cross Roads for 2024, against a median of 14.4% across comparable Texas cities — a gap of 12.5 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 94.2% of reported property offenses in Cross Roads, against a cohort median of 71.6%. The remainder is burglary (3) and motor vehicle theft (0). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Cross Roads'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.
Based on 1 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,036. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Across 6.8 Census sq mi, Cross Roads logged 7.7 property and 0.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Cross Roads's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (92% of 53 offenses; mix index 8,583).
Violent offenses are only 2% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Cross Roads offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (6.8 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 | 52 | 2554 |
| Larceny-Theft | 49 | 2406.7 |
| Burglary | 3 | 147.3 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 1 | 49.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 1 | 49.1 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 2 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2023-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Comparable | 2,058 | 0 | 631.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 2,036 | 49.1 | 2554 |
Cross Roads Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Cross Roads's 53 reported offenses (2-year span 2023-2024).
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 Cross Roads in population. Their populations run from 2,017 to 2,076, against 2,036 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Cross Roads sits at 49.1/100K violent (grade B); the Texas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Cross Roads reported 1 violent crimes and 52 property crimes, for a total of 53 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Cross Roads's violent crime rate data is unavailable, and the property crime rate increased by 304.3%.
The most common crime type in Cross Roads is larceny-theft, accounting for 92.5% of all reported crimes (49 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Cross Roads's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Cross Roads's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Cross Roads, TX rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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