New Boston, TX has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 862 per 100,000, 145% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
New Boston is a small municipal reporter (4,524 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with TX and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
New Boston, TX is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 145% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, New Boston, TX shows violent crime at 862.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,382 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 145% 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 862.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, New Boston ranks 15 of 686 — above 671 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +381.8% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to New Boston's 862.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Corpus Christi (863.6), Snyder (873.4), Raymondville (881.2), Alton (835.6). 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
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1046.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 862.1 in 2024 (-17.6%). The highest observed value was 1046.2 in 2020 and the lowest 265.8 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 20.3% of the 192 Part I offenses reported in New Boston for 2024, against a median of 14.3% across comparable Texas cities — a gap of 6.0 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 85.0% of reported property offenses in New Boston, against a cohort median of 71.6%. The remainder is burglary (16) and motor vehicle theft (7). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate New Boston'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 4.2 Census sq mi, New Boston logged 36.1 property and 9.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
New Boston's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (68% of 192 offenses; mix index 4,935).
Violent offenses are 20% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
New Boston offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4.2 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 | 153 | 3382 |
| Larceny-Theft | 130 | 2873.6 |
| Burglary | 16 | 353.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 7 | 154.7 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 39 | 862.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 31 | 685.2 |
| Robbery | 4 | 88.4 |
| Murder | 3 | 66.3 |
| Rape | 1 | 22.1 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 4,588 | 1046.2 | 2354 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 4,546 | 901.9 | 3101.6 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 4,557 | 833.9 | 3072.2 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 4,515 | 265.8 | 3344.4 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 4,524 | 862.1 | 3382 |
New Boston Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind New Boston's 192 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 New Boston in population. Their populations run from 4,411 to 4,625, against 4,524 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
New Boston sits at 862.1/100K violent (grade F); the Texas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, New Boston reported 39 violent crimes and 153 property crimes, for a total of 192 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, New Boston's violent crime rate increased by 224.3%, and the property crime rate increased by 1.1%.
The most common crime type in New Boston is larceny-theft, accounting for 67.7% of all reported crimes (130 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: New Boston 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 New Boston's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 New Boston, TX rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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