Denison, TX has a A safety grade (76/100) with a violent crime rate of 174 per 100,000, 51% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Denison (26,977 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
Denison, TX is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 51% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Denison, TX shows violent crime at 174.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 815.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 51% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 437.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 174.2 in 2024 (-60.1%). The highest observed value was 437.0 in 2020 and the lowest 174.2 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Denison's 174.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Winters (173.4), Elgin (173.2), La Porte (173.0), Mineola (172.9). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 54.5% of reported property offenses in Denison, against a cohort median of 71.6%. The remainder is burglary (48) and motor vehicle theft (52). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 17.6% of the 267 Part I offenses reported in Denison for 2024, against a median of 14.3% across comparable Texas cities — a gap of 3.3 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 174.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Denison ranks 350 of 686 — above 336 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -3.2% 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 Denison'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 29 Census sq mi, Denison logged 7.6 property and 1.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Denison leans on larceny-theft at 45% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,866.
Violent offenses are 18% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Denison offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (29 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 | 220 | 815.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 120 | 444.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 52 | 192.8 |
| Burglary | 48 | 177.9 |
| Arson | 1 | 3.7 |
| Violent Crime | 47 | 174.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 30 | 111.2 |
| Rape | 10 | 37.1 |
| Robbery | 4 | 14.8 |
| Murder | 3 | 11.1 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 25,858 | 437 | 1883.4 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 26,119 | 356.1 | 1830.1 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 25,828 | 286.5 | 1269.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 27,261 | 179.7 | 891.4 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 26,977 | 174.2 | 815.5 |
Denison Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Denison's 267 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 Denison in population. Their populations run from 25,888 to 27,831, against 26,977 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Denison sits at 174.2/100K violent (grade A); the Texas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Denison at 174.2/100K violent and 815.5/100K property - matched below outside Texas (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
174.2/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
815.5/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-3.1% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Denison reported 47 violent crimes and 220 property crimes, for a total of 267 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Denison's violent crime rate decreased by 3.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 8.5%.
The most common crime type in Denison is larceny-theft, accounting for 44.9% of all reported crimes (120 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Denison 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 Denison's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Denison, TX rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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