Kirby, TX has a F safety grade (17/100) with a violent crime rate of 825 per 100,000, 134% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Kirby is a small municipal reporter (8,003 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with TX and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Kirby, TX is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 134% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Kirby, TX shows violent crime at 824.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,486.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 134% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 824.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Kirby ranks 18 of 686 — above 668 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +360.9% 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 35.7% of the 185 Part I offenses reported in Kirby for 2024, against a median of 14.3% across comparable Texas cities — a gap of 21.4 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Kirby's 824.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Cuero (826.9), Lubbock (821.0), Alton (835.6), Rockdale (810.4). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 726.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 824.7 in 2024 (+13.5%). The highest observed value was 1202.1 in 2022 and the lowest 719.8 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 62.2% of reported property offenses in Kirby, against a cohort median of 71.6%. The remainder is burglary (14) and motor vehicle theft (31). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Kirby'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 2 Census sq mi, Kirby logged 59.5 property and 33 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Kirby leans on larceny-theft at 40% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,064.
Violent offenses are 36% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small city.
Kirby offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (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 | 119 | 1486.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 74 | 924.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 31 | 387.4 |
| Burglary | 14 | 174.9 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 66 | 824.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 62 | 774.7 |
| Rape | 2 | 25 |
| Robbery | 2 | 25 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 8,805 | 726.9 | 919.9 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 8,792 | 1148.8 | 1217 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 8,069 | 1202.1 | 1623.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 8,058 | 719.8 | 1489.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 8,003 | 824.7 | 1486.9 |
Kirby Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Kirby's 185 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 Kirby in population. Their populations run from 7,796 to 8,148, against 8,003 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Kirby sits at 824.7/100K violent (grade F); the Texas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Kirby reported 66 violent crimes and 119 property crimes, for a total of 185 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Kirby's violent crime rate increased by 14.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 0.2%.
The most common crime type in Kirby is larceny-theft, accounting for 40.0% of all reported crimes (74 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Kirby 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 Kirby's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Kirby, TX rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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