Lampasas, TX has a D safety grade (34/100) with a violent crime rate of 398 per 100,000, 13% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Lampasas is a small municipal reporter (8,045 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with TX and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Lampasas, TX is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a D PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 13% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Lampasas, TX shows violent crime at 397.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,983.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 13% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D 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 Lampasas's 397.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Gladewater (396.0), Early (399.6), Borger (400.6), Robstown (394.2). 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 270.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 397.8 in 2024 (+47.0%). The highest observed value was 397.8 in 2024 and the lowest 258.5 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 397.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Lampasas ranks 116 of 686 — above 570 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +122.3% 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 85.4% of reported property offenses in Lampasas, against a cohort median of 71.6%. The remainder is burglary (25) and motor vehicle theft (10). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Lampasas'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 7.4 Census sq mi, Lampasas logged 32.5 property and 4.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Lampasas's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (75% of 272 offenses; mix index 5,850).
Violent offenses are only 12% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Lampasas offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (7.4 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 | 240 | 2983.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 205 | 2548.2 |
| Burglary | 25 | 310.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 10 | 124.3 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 32 | 397.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 22 | 273.5 |
| Rape | 6 | 74.6 |
| Murder | 2 | 24.9 |
| Robbery | 2 | 24.9 |
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 | 8,132 | 270.5 | 2434.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 8,269 | 278.1 | 1838.2 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 7,737 | 258.5 | 2429.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 7,894 | 367.4 | 2698.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 8,045 | 397.8 | 2983.2 |
Lampasas Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Lampasas's 272 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 Lampasas in population. Their populations run from 7,906 to 8,235, against 8,045 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Lampasas sits at 397.8/100K violent (grade D); the Texas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Lampasas reported 32 violent crimes and 240 property crimes, for a total of 272 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Lampasas's violent crime rate increased by 8.3%, and the property crime rate increased by 10.6%.
The most common crime type in Lampasas is larceny-theft, accounting for 75.4% of all reported crimes (205 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Lampasas 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 Lampasas's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Lampasas, TX rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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