La Porte, TX has a B safety grade (74/100) with a violent crime rate of 173 per 100,000, 51% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
La Porte (37,572 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 2026-08-24
La Porte, TX carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 51% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, La Porte, TX shows violent crime at 173 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 958.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 51% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to La Porte's 173.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Mineola (172.9), Elgin (173.2), Winters (173.4), Wills Point (172.5). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 230.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 173.0 in 2024 (-25.0%). The highest observed value was 230.8 in 2020 and the lowest 173.0 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 79.7% of reported property offenses in La Porte, against a cohort median of 71.6%. The remainder is burglary (34) and motor vehicle theft (39). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 173.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, La Porte ranks 353 of 686 — above 333 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -3.8% 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 La Porte'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 18.6 Census sq mi, La Porte logged 19.4 property and 3.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
La Porte's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (68% of 425 offenses; mix index 4,862).
Violent offenses are 15% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
La Porte offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (18.6 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 | 360 | 958.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 287 | 763.9 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 39 | 103.8 |
| Burglary | 34 | 90.5 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 65 | 173 |
| Aggravated Assault | 52 | 138.4 |
| Rape | 7 | 18.6 |
| Robbery | 4 | 10.6 |
| Murder | 2 | 5.3 |
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 | 35,102 | 230.8 | 1262 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 35,972 | 214.1 | 1206.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 36,646 | 229.2 | 1440.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 37,221 | 204.2 | 894.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 37,572 | 173 | 958.2 |
La Porte Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind La Porte's 425 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 La Porte in population. Their populations run from 36,819 to 39,379, against 37,572 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
La Porte sits at 173/100K violent (grade B); the Texas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
La Porte at 173/100K violent and 958.2/100K property - matched below outside Texas (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
173/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
958.2/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-15.3% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, La Porte reported 65 violent crimes and 360 property crimes, for a total of 425 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, La Porte's violent crime rate decreased by 15.3%, and the property crime rate increased by 7.1%.
The most common crime type in La Porte is larceny-theft, accounting for 67.5% of all reported crimes (287 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: La Porte 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 La Porte's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 La Porte, TX rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. La Porte is scored in the mid-size municipal band (37,572 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.