El Paso, TX has a C safety grade (59/100) with a violent crime rate of 278 per 100,000, 21% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · very large city
El Paso, TX Crime Rate & Safety
At 678,860 residents, El Paso is a very large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against TX and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
El Paso, TX carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 21% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, El Paso, TX shows violent crime at 278.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,494 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 21% 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
278.4/100K violent
1494/100K property
-21% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for El Paso, TX
Comparable rate records
El Paso's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Texas cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to El Paso's 278.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Madisonville (278.7), Whitewright (278.9), Groesbeck (277.5), West Columbia (277.0). 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
El Paso sits mid-pack among comparable Texas cities
At 278.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, El Paso ranks 209 of 686 — above 477 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +55.6% 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 322.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 278.4 in 2024 (-13.7%). The highest observed value was 322.8 in 2020 and the lowest 262.0 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate El Paso'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.
On a very large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
El Paso's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 258.8 Census sq mi, El Paso logged 39.2 property and 7.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
El Paso's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 12,032 offenses; mix index 4,160).
Violent offenses are 16% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (258.8 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-11.7%
315.4 → 278.4/100K
Property Crime Rate
-8.6%
1634.8 → 1494/100K
Property offenses lead El Paso's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs TX
Property Crime
10,142
1494
2058.2
Larceny-Theft
7,280
1072.4
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
1,910
281.4
-
Burglary
952
140.2
-
Arson
69
10.2
-
Violent Crime
1,890
278.4
394.7
Aggravated Assault
1,614
237.8
-
Robbery
252
37.1
-
Murder
20
2.9
-
Rape
4
0.6
-
El Paso Crime Trend (2020-2024)
El Paso property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
El Paso Police Department
Reporting agency for El Paso NIBRS-participating
El Paso Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind El Paso's 12,032 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
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In 2024, El Paso reported 1,890 violent crimes and 10,142 property crimes, for a total of 12,032 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in El Paso?
From 2023 to 2024, El Paso's violent crime rate decreased by 11.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 8.6%.
What is the most common crime in El Paso?
The most common crime type in El Paso is larceny-theft, accounting for 60.5% of all reported crimes (7,280 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: El Paso's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (very large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 El Paso, TX rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.