Mineral Wells, TX is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 13% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Mineral Wells, TX shows violent crime at 306.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,712.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 13% 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.
C safety grade
306.3/100K violent
2712.4/100K property
-13% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Mineral Wells, TX
Comparable rate records
Mineral Wells's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Texas cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Mineral Wells's 306.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Shenandoah (307.1), Terrell (305.3), Duncanville (308.2), Luling (309.7). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Mineral Wells sits mid-pack among comparable Texas cities
At 306.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Mineral Wells ranks 194 of 686 — above 492 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +71.2% 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
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 10.1% of the 473 Part I offenses reported in Mineral Wells for 2024, against a median of 14.4% across comparable Texas cities — a gap of 4.2 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 318.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 306.3 in 2024 (-3.9%). The highest observed value was 371.4 in 2023 and the lowest 179.1 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Mineral Wells'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Mineral Wells's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 20.4 Census sq mi, Mineral Wells logged 20.8 property and 2.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Mineral Wells's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (58% of 473 offenses; mix index 4,065).
Violent offenses are only 10% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (20.4 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-17.5%
371.4 → 306.3/100K
Property Crime Rate
-10.7%
3036.4 → 2712.4/100K
Property offenses lead Mineral Wells's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
425
2712.4
1711
Larceny-Theft
276
1761.4
-
Burglary
110
702
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
39
248.9
-
Arson
1
6.4
-
Violent Crime
48
306.3
352
Aggravated Assault
31
197.8
-
Rape
13
83
-
Robbery
4
25.5
-
Murder
0
0
-
Mineral Wells Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Mineral Wells property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averagesRead the chart as a list
Mineral Wells: 306 violent, 2712 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Lockhart: 185 violent, 1520 property per 100,000 (grade B)
South Houston: 694 violent, 2179 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Uvalde: 393 violent, 1838 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Palmview: 478 violent, 1460 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Rio Grande City: 189 violent, 1736 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Mount Pleasant: 225 violent, 1833 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Live Oak: 143 violent, 3771 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Humble: 983 violent, 10320 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Mineral Wells Police Department
Reporting agency for Mineral Wells NIBRS-participating
Mineral Wells Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Mineral Wells's 473 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.
Similar-Size Cities in Texas
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Mineral Wells at 306.3/100K violent and 2,712.4/100K property - matched below outside Texas (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Mineral Wells reported 48 violent crimes and 425 property crimes, for a total of 473 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Mineral Wells?
From 2023 to 2024, Mineral Wells's violent crime rate decreased by 17.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 10.7%.
What is the most common crime in Mineral Wells?
The most common crime type in Mineral Wells is larceny-theft, accounting for 58.4% of all reported crimes (276 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Mineral Wells figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Mineral Wells, TX rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.