Lamesa, TX has a C safety grade (53/100) with a violent crime rate of 344 per 100,000, 2% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Lamesa is a small municipal reporter (8,131 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with TX and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Lamesa, TX is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 2% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Lamesa, TX shows violent crime at 344.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,426.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 2% below 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.
Small-count caution
Lamesa reported 28 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 8,131. 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 Lamesa's 344.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Marshall (344.5), Palacios (343.6), Bruceville-Eddy (342.0), Splendora (340.8). 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 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 614.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 344.4 in 2024 (-43.9%). The highest observed value was 614.1 in 2020 and the lowest 337.3 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 344.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Lamesa ranks 164 of 686 — above 522 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +92.4% 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 56.9% of reported property offenses in Lamesa, against a cohort median of 71.6%. The remainder is burglary (37) and motor vehicle theft (13). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 19.4% of the 144 Part I offenses reported in Lamesa for 2024, against a median of 14.3% across comparable Texas cities — a gap of 5.2 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 counts dominate Lamesa'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 28 reported violent incidents in a population of 8,131. 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 5.1 Census sq mi, Lamesa logged 22.7 property and 5.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Lamesa leans on larceny-theft at 46% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,030.
Violent offenses are 19% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Lamesa offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (5.1 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 | 116 | 1426.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 66 | 811.7 |
| Burglary | 37 | 455 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 13 | 159.9 |
| Arson | 4 | 49.2 |
| Violent Crime | 28 | 344.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 17 | 209.1 |
| Rape | 9 | 110.7 |
| Robbery | 2 | 24.6 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 9,119 | 614.1 | 4046.5 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 9,104 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 8,726 | 492.8 | 2452.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 8,300 | 337.3 | 1036.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 8,131 | 344.4 | 1426.6 |
Lamesa Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Lamesa's 144 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
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 Lamesa in population. Their populations run from 7,982 to 8,328, against 8,131 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Lamesa sits at 344.4/100K violent (grade C); the Texas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Lamesa reported 28 violent crimes and 116 property crimes, for a total of 144 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Lamesa's violent crime rate increased by 2.1%, and the property crime rate increased by 37.7%.
The most common crime type in Lamesa is larceny-theft, accounting for 45.8% of all reported crimes (66 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Lamesa 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 Lamesa's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Lamesa, TX rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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