Hempstead, TX has a C safety grade (44/100) with a violent crime rate of 434 per 100,000, 23% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Hempstead is a small municipal reporter (6,921 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with TX and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Hempstead, TX is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 23% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Hempstead, TX shows violent crime at 433.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,502.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 23% above 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Hempstead's 433.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Bastrop (435.9), Mexia (438.1), Commerce (427.4), Baytown (440.0). 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
At 433.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Hempstead ranks 96 of 686 — above 590 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +142.2% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 22.4% of the 134 Part I offenses reported in Hempstead for 2024, against a median of 14.3% across comparable Texas cities — a gap of 8.1 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 540.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 433.5 in 2024 (-19.8%). The highest observed value was 694.6 in 2021 and the lowest 433.5 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Hempstead'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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 6.6 Census sq mi, Hempstead logged 15.8 property and 4.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Hempstead leans on larceny-theft at 57% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,691.
Violent offenses are 22% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Hempstead offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (6.6 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 | 104 | 1502.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 76 | 1098.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 17 | 245.6 |
| Burglary | 11 | 158.9 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 30 | 433.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 20 | 289 |
| Robbery | 5 | 72.2 |
| Rape | 4 | 57.8 |
| Murder | 1 | 14.4 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 8,699 | 540.3 | 1287.5 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 9,214 | 694.6 | 1378.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 6,388 | 547.9 | 1909.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 6,545 | 504.2 | 1971 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 6,921 | 433.5 | 1502.7 |
Hempstead Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Hempstead's 134 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 Hempstead in population. Their populations run from 6,729 to 7,101, against 6,921 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Hempstead sits at 433.5/100K violent (grade C); the Texas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Hempstead reported 30 violent crimes and 104 property crimes, for a total of 134 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Hempstead's violent crime rate decreased by 14%, and the property crime rate decreased by 23.8%.
The most common crime type in Hempstead is larceny-theft, accounting for 56.7% of all reported crimes (76 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Hempstead is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Hempstead's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Hempstead, TX rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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