Forest Hill, TX has a B safety grade (69/100) with a violent crime rate of 176 per 100,000, 50% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Forest Hill (14,230 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
Forest Hill, TX is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 50% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Forest Hill, TX shows violent crime at 175.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,567.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 50% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Forest Hill reported 25 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 14,230. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 375.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 175.7 in 2024 (-53.2%). The highest observed value was 599.9 in 2021 and the lowest 175.7 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 Forest Hill's 175.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Sealy (176.0), Ennis (176.1), Denison (174.2), Winters (173.4). 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 46.2% of reported property offenses in Forest Hill, against a cohort median of 71.6%. The remainder is burglary (40) and motor vehicle theft (80). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 10.1% of the 248 Part I offenses reported in Forest Hill for 2024, against a median of 14.4% across comparable Texas cities — a gap of 4.3 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 175.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Forest Hill ranks 349 of 686 — above 337 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -2.4% 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 Forest Hill'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.
Based on 25 reported violent incidents in a population of 14,230. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 4.2 Census sq mi, Forest Hill logged 53.5 property and 6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Forest Hill leans on larceny-theft at 42% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,065.
Violent offenses are only 10% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Forest Hill offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4.2 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 223 | 1567.1 |
| Larceny-Theft | 103 | 723.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 80 | 562.2 |
| Burglary | 40 | 281.1 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 25 | 175.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 12 | 84.3 |
| Robbery | 9 | 63.2 |
| Rape | 4 | 28.1 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
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 | 13,058 | 375.2 | 2519.5 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 13,002 | 599.9 | 2099.7 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 13,685 | 365.4 | 1812.2 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 13,583 | 198.8 | 1722.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 14,230 | 175.7 | 1567.1 |
Forest Hill Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Forest Hill's 248 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 Forest Hill in population. Their populations run from 13,644 to 14,720, against 14,230 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Forest Hill sits at 175.7/100K violent (grade B); the Texas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Forest Hill at 175.7/100K violent and 1,567.1/100K property - matched below outside Texas (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
175.7/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,567.1/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Forest Hill reported 25 violent crimes and 223 property crimes, for a total of 248 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Forest Hill's violent crime rate decreased by 11.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 9%.
The most common crime type in Forest Hill is larceny-theft, accounting for 41.5% of all reported crimes (103 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Forest Hill 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 Forest Hill's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Forest Hill, TX rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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