New Braunfels, TX has a B safety grade (73/100) with a violent crime rate of 156 per 100,000, 56% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
New Braunfels, TX Crime Rate & Safety
At 118,268 residents, New Braunfels 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.
New Braunfels, TX carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 56% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, New Braunfels, TX shows violent crime at 156.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,283.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 56% 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
156.4/100K violent
1283.5/100K property
-56% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for New Braunfels, TX
Comparable rate records
New Braunfels's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Texas cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to New Braunfels's 156.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Rhome (156.5), Wake Village (156.1), Portland (156.1), Childress (155.6). 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 234.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 156.4 in 2024 (-33.2%). The highest observed value was 245.0 in 2021 and the lowest 145.6 in 2023. 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 81.9% of reported property offenses in New Braunfels, against a cohort median of 71.6%. The remainder is burglary (150) and motor vehicle theft (125). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 10.9% of the 1,703 Part I offenses reported in New Braunfels for 2024, against a median of 14.4% across comparable Texas cities — a gap of 3.5 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.
Position in the state cohort
New Braunfels sits mid-pack among comparable Texas cities
At 156.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, New Braunfels ranks 381 of 686 — above 305 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -13.1% 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 counts dominate New Braunfels'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.
New Braunfels's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 45 Census sq mi, New Braunfels logged 33.7 property and 4.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
New Braunfels's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (73% of 1,703 offenses; mix index 5,537).
Violent offenses are only 11% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (45 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
+7.4%
145.6 → 156.4/100K
Property Crime Rate
+2.3%
1254.2 → 1283.5/100K
Property offenses lead New Braunfels's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs TX
Property Crime
1,518
1283.5
2058.2
Larceny-Theft
1,243
1051
-
Burglary
150
126.8
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
125
105.7
-
Arson
3
2.5
-
Violent Crime
185
156.4
394.7
Aggravated Assault
148
125.1
-
Rape
20
16.9
-
Robbery
15
12.7
-
Murder
2
1.7
-
New Braunfels Crime Trend (2020-2024)
New Braunfels 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
New Braunfels Police Department
Reporting agency for New Braunfels NIBRS-participating
New Braunfels Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind New Braunfels's 1,703 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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New Braunfels at 156.4/100K violent and 1,283.5/100K property - matched below outside Texas (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, New Braunfels reported 185 violent crimes and 1,518 property crimes, for a total of 1,703 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in New Braunfels?
From 2023 to 2024, New Braunfels's violent crime rate increased by 7.4%, and the property crime rate increased by 2.3%.
What is the most common crime in New Braunfels?
The most common crime type in New Braunfels is larceny-theft, accounting for 73.0% of all reported crimes (1,243 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: New Braunfels'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 New Braunfels, TX rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.