Lacy-Lakeview, TX has a C safety grade (45/100) with a violent crime rate of 422 per 100,000, 20% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Lacy-Lakeview is a small municipal reporter (7,341 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with TX and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Lacy-Lakeview, TX is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 20% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Lacy-Lakeview, TX shows violent crime at 422.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,525.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 20% 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 Lacy-Lakeview's 422.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Athens (422.8), Levelland (424.0), Abilene (424.5), Waco (425.9). 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 422.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Lacy-Lakeview ranks 102 of 686 — above 584 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +136.0% 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 21.7% of the 143 Part I offenses reported in Lacy-Lakeview for 2024, against a median of 14.3% across comparable Texas cities — a gap of 7.4 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 474.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 422.3 in 2024 (-11.0%). The highest observed value was 474.2 in 2020 and the lowest 365.7 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Lacy-Lakeview'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 4.4 Census sq mi, Lacy-Lakeview logged 25.7 property and 7.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Lacy-Lakeview's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (62% of 143 offenses; mix index 4,303).
Violent offenses are 22% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Lacy-Lakeview offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4.4 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 112 | 1525.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 89 | 1212.4 |
| Burglary | 18 | 245.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 5 | 68.1 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 31 | 422.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 22 | 299.7 |
| Rape | 6 | 81.7 |
| Robbery | 3 | 40.9 |
| 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 | 6,748 | 474.2 | 2860.1 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 6,836 | 365.7 | 2457.6 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 7,143 | 392 | 2561.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 7,333 | 395.5 | 1377.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 7,341 | 422.3 | 1525.7 |
Lacy-Lakeview Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Lacy-Lakeview's 143 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 Lacy-Lakeview in population. Their populations run from 7,217 to 7,431, against 7,341 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Lacy-Lakeview sits at 422.3/100K violent (grade C); the Texas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Lacy-Lakeview reported 31 violent crimes and 112 property crimes, for a total of 143 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Lacy-Lakeview's violent crime rate increased by 6.8%, and the property crime rate increased by 10.8%.
The most common crime type in Lacy-Lakeview is larceny-theft, accounting for 62.2% of all reported crimes (89 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Lacy-Lakeview 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 Lacy-Lakeview's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Lacy-Lakeview, TX rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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