Donna, TX has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 1758 per 100,000, 399% above the national average.
Donna (16,781 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then TX and national benchmarks.
Donna, TX carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 399% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Donna, TX shows violent crime at 1,757.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 4,302.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 399% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
The verdict
Donna earns an F safety grade: violent crime runs 399% above the U.S. average, placing it among the highest-crime cities in the country.
Position in the state cohort
At 1757.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Donna ranks 1 of 686 — above 685 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +882.4% 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
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1067.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1757.9 in 2024 (+64.7%). The highest observed value was 1757.9 in 2024 and the lowest 1067.1 in 2020. 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 Donna's 1757.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Balcones Heights (1722.2), South Padre Island (1428.6), Gonzales (1395.2), Houston (1148.2). 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 are 29.0% of the 1,017 Part I offenses reported in Donna for 2024, against a median of 14.3% across comparable Texas cities — a gap of 14.7 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 Donna'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.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 722 | 4302.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 570 | 3396.7 |
| Burglary | 78 | 464.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 74 | 441 |
| Arson | 3 | 17.9 |
| Violent Crime | 295 | 1757.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 265 | 1579.2 |
| Rape | 18 | 107.3 |
| Robbery | 12 | 71.5 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 16,400 | 1067.1 | 3347.6 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 16,371 | 1496.5 | 2473.9 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 16,842 | 1145.9 | 2683.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 16,769 | 1478.9 | 3548.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 16,781 | 1757.9 | 4302.5 |
Donna's crime figures on this page originate from Donna Police Department's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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 Donna in population. Their populations run from 16,445 to 17,242, against 16,781 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
These Texas cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Donna's 1,757.9/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Mid-size read: Donna 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 Donna's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Donna, TX rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Donna is scored in the mid-size municipal band (16,781 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.