Los Fresnos, TX has a F safety grade (16/100) with a violent crime rate of 794 per 100,000, 126% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Los Fresnos is a small municipal reporter (8,439 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with TX and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Los Fresnos, TX is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 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.
2020–2024 direction
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
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 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
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 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.
Across 4.4 Census sq mi, Los Fresnos logged 31 property and 15.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Los Fresnos's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (57% of 203 offenses; mix index 4,196).
Violent offenses are 33% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Los Fresnos 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 | 136 | 1611.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 116 | 1374.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 12 | 142.2 |
| Burglary | 8 | 94.8 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 67 | 793.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 60 | 711 |
| Rape | 5 | 59.2 |
| Robbery | 2 | 23.7 |
| 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 | 7,929 | 239.6 | 1387.3 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 7,908 | 455.2 | 1087.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 8,164 | 428.7 | 1396.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 8,260 | 774.8 | 1416.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 8,439 | 793.9 | 1611.6 |
Los Fresnos Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Los Fresnos's 203 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 Los Fresnos in population. Their populations run from 8,223 to 8,690, against 8,439 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Los Fresnos sits at 793.9/100K violent (grade F); the Texas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Los Fresnos reported 67 violent crimes and 136 property crimes, for a total of 203 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Los Fresnos's violent crime rate increased by 2.5%, and the property crime rate increased by 13.8%.
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.
Small-city rate methodology for how Los Fresnos's small city row is sourced and ranked.
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.
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