Donna, TX has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 1758 per 100,000, 399% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
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.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Donna, TX is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 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.
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.
Across 8.3 Census sq mi, Donna logged 87.1 property and 35.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Donna leans on larceny-theft at 56% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,937.
Violent offenses are 29% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Donna offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (8.3 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 | 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 Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Donna's 1,017 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 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.
Donna sits at 1,757.9/100K violent (grade F); the Texas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Donna at 1,757.9/100K violent and 4,302.5/100K property - matched below outside Texas (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
1,757.9/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
4,302.5/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Donna reported 295 violent crimes and 722 property crimes, for a total of 1,017 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Donna's violent crime rate increased by 18.9%, and the property crime rate increased by 21.3%.
The most common crime type in Donna is larceny-theft, accounting for 56.0% of all reported crimes (570 incidents in 2024).
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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