Missouri City, TX has a A safety grade (77/100) with a violent crime rate of 142 per 100,000, 60% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Missouri City, TX Crime Rate & Safety
At 77,571 residents, Missouri City 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.
Missouri City, TX carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 60% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Missouri City, TX shows violent crime at 141.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,049.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 60% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
A safety grade
141.8/100K violent
1049.4/100K property
-60% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Missouri City, TX
Comparable rate records
Missouri City's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Texas cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Missouri City's 141.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Socorro (141.7), Muleshoe (142.3), Whitesboro (142.3), Surfside Beach (141.0). 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 172.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 141.8 in 2024 (-17.8%). The highest observed value was 172.6 in 2020 and the lowest 141.8 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Missouri City sits mid-pack among comparable Texas cities
At 141.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Missouri City ranks 419 of 686 — above 267 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -21.2% against the cohort median of 179.9. 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 dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 82.6% of reported property offenses in Missouri City, against a cohort median of 71.6%. The remainder is burglary (76) and motor vehicle theft (66). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Missouri City'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.
Missouri City's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 29 Census sq mi, Missouri City logged 28 property and 3.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Missouri City's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (73% of 924 offenses; mix index 5,465).
Violent offenses are only 12% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (29 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
+18.5%
885.8 → 1049.4/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-11.3%
159.9 → 141.8/100K
Property offenses lead Missouri City's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs TX
Property Crime
814
1049.4
2058.2
Larceny-Theft
672
866.3
-
Burglary
76
98
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
66
85.1
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
110
141.8
394.7
Aggravated Assault
61
78.6
-
Rape
27
34.8
-
Robbery
20
25.8
-
Murder
2
2.6
-
Missouri City Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Missouri City property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Missouri City Police Department
Reporting agency for Missouri City NIBRS-participating
Missouri City Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Missouri City's 924 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 Missouri City in population. Their populations run from 71,388 to 83,771, against 77,571 here. Or use our
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Missouri City at 141.8/100K violent and 1,049.4/100K property - matched below outside Texas (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Missouri City reported 110 violent crimes and 814 property crimes, for a total of 924 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Missouri City?
From 2023 to 2024, Missouri City's violent crime rate decreased by 11.3%, and the property crime rate increased by 18.5%.
What is the most common crime in Missouri City?
The most common crime type in Missouri City is larceny-theft, accounting for 72.7% of all reported crimes (672 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Missouri City'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 Missouri City, TX rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.