Los Fresnos, TX carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 126% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Los Fresnos, TX shows violent crime at 793.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,611.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 126% 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.
F safety grade
793.9/100K violent
1611.6/100K property
+126% vs U.S.
The verdict
Los Fresnos earns an F safety grade: violent crime runs 126% above the U.S. average, placing it among the highest-crime cities in the country.
F
PlainCrime safety grade
+126%
violent crime vs. U.S. average
5th
percentile of 7,769 U.S. cities
1,611.6
property crimes per 100K
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Los Fresnos, TX
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 239.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 793.9 in 2024 (+231.3%). The highest observed value was 793.9 in 2024 and the lowest 239.6 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Los Fresnos reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Texas cities
At 793.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Los Fresnos ranks 21 of 686 — above 665 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +343.7% 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 make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 33.0% of the 203 Part I offenses reported in Los Fresnos for 2024, against a median of 14.3% across comparable Texas cities — a gap of 18.7 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.
Comparable rate records
Los Fresnos's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Texas cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Los Fresnos's 793.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Navasota (785.1), Rockdale (810.4), Crosbyton (776.3), Corrigan (773.0). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 85.3% of reported property offenses in Los Fresnos, against a cohort median of 71.6%. The remainder is burglary (8) and motor vehicle theft (12). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Los Fresnos'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.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
+13.8%
1416.5 → 1611.6/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+2.5%
774.8 → 793.9/100K
Property offenses lead Los Fresnos's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs TX
Property Crime
136
1611.6
2058.2
Larceny-Theft
116
1374.6
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
12
142.2
-
Burglary
8
94.8
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
67
793.9
394.7
Aggravated Assault
60
711
-
Rape
5
59.2
-
Robbery
2
23.7
-
Murder
0
0
-
Los Fresnos Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Los Fresnos property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Property crime rate (2024)
1,611.6/100K↑13.8%vs 2023
Los Fresnos violent crime rate trend
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Violent crime rate (2024)
793.9/100K↑2.5%vs 2023
Year
Coverage
Population
Violent Rate
Property Rate
Total Crimes
2020
Comparable
7,929
239.6
1387.3
129
2021
Comparable
7,908
455.2
1087.5
122
2022
Comparable
8,164
428.7
1396.4
149
2023
Comparable
8,260
774.8
1416.5
181
2024
Comparable
8,439
793.9
1611.6
203
How Los Fresnos sits among TX peers
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Reporting Agency
Los Fresnos Police Department NIBRS-participating
Los Fresnos's crime figures on this page originate from Los Fresnos Police Department's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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.
Similar-Size Cities in Texas
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Texas cities closest to Los Fresnos in population. Their populations run from 8,223 to 8,690, against 8,439 here. Or use our
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These Texas cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Los Fresnos's 793.9/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Los Fresnos has a violent crime rate of 793.9 per 100,000 residents and a property crime rate of 1611.6 per 100,000, based on 2024 FBI UCR data.
Is Los Fresnos, TX safe? ▼
Los Fresnos receives a safety grade of F (High Risk), with a safety score of 16/100. The violent crime rate is 126% above the national average and 101% above the Texas average.
What is the population of Los Fresnos, TX? ▼
The reporting population for Los Fresnos is 8,439 as of 2024.
How many crimes were reported in Los Fresnos? ▼
In 2024, Los Fresnos reported 67 violent crimes and 136 property crimes, for a total of 203 reported offenses.
How do Los Fresnos's reported offenses compare with its population? ▼
In 2024, Los Fresnos recorded about one reported offense per 42 residents and one reported violent offense per 126 residents. These ratios count reported offenses, not distinct victims, and are not a person's probability of victimization.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Los Fresnos? ▼
From 2023 to 2024, Los Fresnos's violent crime rate increased by 2.5%, and the property crime rate increased by 13.8%.
What is the most common crime in Los Fresnos? ▼
The most common crime type in Los Fresnos is larceny-theft, accounting for 57.1% of all reported crimes (116 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Los Fresnos 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Los Fresnos, TX rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.