Grand Prairie, TX has a B safety grade (64/100) with a violent crime rate of 221 per 100,000, 37% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Grand Prairie, TX Crime Rate & Safety
At 206,122 residents, Grand Prairie is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against TX and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Grand Prairie, TX carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 37% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Grand Prairie, TX shows violent crime at 221.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,601 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 37% 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.
B safety grade
221.2/100K violent
1601/100K property
-37% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Grand Prairie, TX
Comparable rate records
Grand Prairie's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Texas cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Grand Prairie's 221.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Pharr (222.1), River Oaks (219.6), North Richland Hills (223.2), Waxahachie (223.5). 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
Grand Prairie sits mid-pack among comparable Texas cities
At 221.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Grand Prairie ranks 285 of 686 — above 401 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +23.6% 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 245.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 221.2 in 2024 (-10.0%). The highest observed value was 245.7 in 2020 and the lowest 194.2 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Grand Prairie'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 large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Grand Prairie's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 72.4 Census sq mi, Grand Prairie logged 45.6 property and 6.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Grand Prairie's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (63% of 3,756 offenses; mix index 4,399).
Violent offenses are only 12% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (72.4 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
+13.9%
194.2 → 221.2/100K
Property Crime Rate
-1.5%
1625.9 → 1601/100K
Property offenses lead Grand Prairie's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs TX
Property Crime
3,300
1601
2058.2
Larceny-Theft
2,366
1147.9
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
611
296.4
-
Burglary
323
156.7
-
Arson
7
3.4
-
Violent Crime
456
221.2
394.7
Aggravated Assault
353
171.3
-
Robbery
58
28.1
-
Rape
41
19.9
-
Murder
4
1.9
-
Grand Prairie Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Grand Prairie 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
Grand Prairie Police Department
Reporting agency for Grand Prairie NIBRS-participating
Grand Prairie Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Grand Prairie's 3,756 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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Grand Prairie at 221.2/100K violent and 1,601/100K property - matched below outside Texas (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Grand Prairie reported 456 violent crimes and 3,300 property crimes, for a total of 3,756 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Grand Prairie?
From 2023 to 2024, Grand Prairie's violent crime rate increased by 13.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 1.5%.
What is the most common crime in Grand Prairie?
The most common crime type in Grand Prairie is larceny-theft, accounting for 63.0% of all reported crimes (2,366 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Grand Prairie'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 (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 Grand Prairie, TX rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.