Mission, TX has a B safety grade (71/100) with a violent crime rate of 189 per 100,000, 46% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Mission, TX Crime Rate & Safety
At 87,777 residents, Mission is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against TX and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Mission, TX carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 46% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Mission, TX shows violent crime at 189.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,148.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 46% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
B safety grade
189.1/100K violent
1148.4/100K property
-46% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Mission, TX
Comparable rate records
Mission's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Texas cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Mission's 189.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Rio Grande City (189.3), La Villa (189.9), Edcouch (188.3), Denver City (188.1). 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 155.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 189.1 in 2024 (+21.9%). The highest observed value was 338.4 in 2022 and the lowest 98.6 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 85.2% of reported property offenses in Mission, against a cohort median of 71.6%. The remainder is burglary (99) and motor vehicle theft (50). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
Mission sits mid-pack among comparable Texas cities
At 189.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Mission ranks 328 of 686 — above 358 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +5.7% 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.
Property counts dominate Mission'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Mission's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 36.3 Census sq mi, Mission logged 27.7 property and 4.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Mission's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (73% of 1,174 offenses; mix index 5,551).
Violent offenses are only 14% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (36.3 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
-7.5%
204.5 → 189.1/100K
Property Crime Rate
+0.4%
1143.3 → 1148.4/100K
Property offenses lead Mission's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs TX
Property Crime
1,008
1148.4
2058.2
Larceny-Theft
859
978.6
-
Burglary
99
112.8
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
50
57
-
Arson
1
1.1
-
Violent Crime
166
189.1
394.7
Aggravated Assault
117
133.3
-
Rape
31
35.3
-
Robbery
14
15.9
-
Murder
4
4.6
-
Mission Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Mission 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 averages
Mission Police Department
Reporting agency for Mission NIBRS-participating
Mission Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Mission's 1,174 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
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Texas cities closest to Mission in population. Their populations run from 80,455 to 91,450, against 87,777 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Mission reported 166 violent crimes and 1,008 property crimes, for a total of 1,174 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Mission?
From 2023 to 2024, Mission's violent crime rate decreased by 7.5%, and the property crime rate increased by 0.4%.
What is the most common crime in Mission?
The most common crime type in Mission is larceny-theft, accounting for 73.2% of all reported crimes (859 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Mission's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Mission, TX rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.