Duncanville, TX carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 12% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Duncanville, TX shows violent crime at 308.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,277.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 12% below 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.
C safety grade
308.2/100K violent
2277.9/100K property
-12% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Duncanville, TX
Comparable rate records
Duncanville's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Texas cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Duncanville's 308.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Shenandoah (307.1), Luling (309.7), Mineral Wells (306.3), Terrell (305.3). 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
Duncanville sits mid-pack among comparable Texas cities
At 308.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Duncanville ranks 192 of 686 — above 494 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +72.2% 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 396.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 308.2 in 2024 (-22.3%). The highest observed value was 433.1 in 2021 and the lowest 308.2 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 55.8% of reported property offenses in Duncanville, against a cohort median of 71.6%. The remainder is burglary (173) and motor vehicle theft (219). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Duncanville'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.
Duncanville's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 11.2 Census sq mi, Duncanville logged 79.2 property and 10.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Duncanville leans on larceny-theft at 49% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,252.
Violent offenses are only 12% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (11.2 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-19.7%
383.6 → 308.2/100K
Property Crime Rate
-2.5%
2337.4 → 2277.9/100K
Property offenses lead Duncanville's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
887
2277.9
1711
Larceny-Theft
495
1271.2
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
219
562.4
-
Burglary
173
444.3
-
Arson
1
2.6
-
Violent Crime
120
308.2
352
Aggravated Assault
76
195.2
-
Robbery
32
82.2
-
Rape
9
23.1
-
Murder
3
7.7
-
Duncanville Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Duncanville property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Duncanville Police Department
Reporting agency for Duncanville NIBRS-participating
Duncanville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Duncanville's 1,007 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.
Similar-Size Cities in Texas
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Texas cities closest to Duncanville in population. Their populations run from 37,572 to 39,522, against 38,939 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Duncanville reported 120 violent crimes and 887 property crimes, for a total of 1,007 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Duncanville?
From 2023 to 2024, Duncanville's violent crime rate decreased by 19.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 2.5%.
What is the most common crime in Duncanville?
The most common crime type in Duncanville is larceny-theft, accounting for 49.2% of all reported crimes (495 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Duncanville 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Duncanville, TX rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.