Lake Worth, TX has a F safety grade (14/100) with a violent crime rate of 567 per 100,000, 61% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Lake Worth is a small municipal reporter (4,589 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with TX and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Lake Worth, TX is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 61% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Lake Worth, TX shows violent crime at 566.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 8,455 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 61% 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 566.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Lake Worth ranks 44 of 686 — above 642 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +216.6% 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.
Small-count caution
Lake Worth reported 26 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 4,589. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Lake Worth's 566.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Pasadena (566.1), Ingleside (571.2), Arcola (573.3), Westworth (558.5). 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 406.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 566.6 in 2024 (+39.4%). The highest observed value was 623.4 in 2022 and the lowest 406.4 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 6.3% of the 414 Part I offenses reported in Lake Worth for 2024, against a median of 14.4% 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 86.9% of reported property offenses in Lake Worth, against a cohort median of 71.6%. The remainder is burglary (18) and motor vehicle theft (33). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Lake Worth'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.
Based on 26 reported violent incidents in a population of 4,589. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
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 2.5 Census sq mi, Lake Worth logged 157.5 property and 10.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Lake Worth's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (81% of 414 offenses; mix index 6,738).
Violent offenses are only 6% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Lake Worth offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2.5 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 | 388 | 8455 |
| Larceny-Theft | 337 | 7343.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 33 | 719.1 |
| Burglary | 18 | 392.2 |
| Arson | 2 | 43.6 |
| Violent Crime | 26 | 566.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 22 | 479.4 |
| Robbery | 3 | 65.4 |
| Rape | 1 | 21.8 |
| 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 | 4,921 | 406.4 | 5486.7 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 4,886 | 511.7 | 6221.9 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 4,652 | 623.4 | 7330.2 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 4,652 | 494.4 | 9565.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 4,589 | 566.6 | 8455 |
Lake Worth Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Lake Worth's 414 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 Lake Worth in population. Their populations run from 4,524 to 4,664, against 4,589 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Lake Worth sits at 566.6/100K violent (grade F); the Texas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Lake Worth reported 26 violent crimes and 388 property crimes, for a total of 414 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Lake Worth's violent crime rate increased by 14.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 11.6%.
The most common crime type in Lake Worth is larceny-theft, accounting for 81.4% of all reported crimes (337 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Lake Worth 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 Lake Worth's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Lake Worth, TX rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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