North Richland Hills, TX has a C safety grade (58/100) with a violent crime rate of 223 per 100,000, 37% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
North Richland Hills, TX Crime Rate & Safety
At 70,780 residents, North Richland Hills 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.
North Richland Hills, TX carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 37% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, North Richland Hills, TX shows violent crime at 223.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,232.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 37% 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
223.2/100K violent
2232.3/100K property
-37% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for North Richland Hills, TX
Comparable rate records
North Richland Hills's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Texas cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to North Richland Hills's 223.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Waxahachie (223.5), Pharr (222.1), Mount Pleasant (224.5), Burkburnett (224.7). 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.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 9.1% of the 1,738 Part I offenses reported in North Richland Hills for 2024, against a median of 14.4% across comparable Texas cities — a gap of 5.3 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 higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 198.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 223.2 in 2024 (+12.4%). The highest observed value was 226.8 in 2022 and the lowest 198.5 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
North Richland Hills sits mid-pack among comparable Texas cities
At 223.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, North Richland Hills ranks 283 of 686 — above 403 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +24.7% 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 80.3% of reported property offenses in North Richland Hills, against a cohort median of 71.6%. The remainder is burglary (168) and motor vehicle theft (143). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate North Richland Hills'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.
North Richland Hills's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 18.2 Census sq mi, North Richland Hills logged 87 property and 8.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
North Richland Hills's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (73% of 1,738 offenses; mix index 5,537).
Violent offenses are only 9% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (18.2 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+11.4%
200.4 → 223.2/100K
Property Crime Rate
-1.4%
2263.8 → 2232.3/100K
Property offenses lead North Richland Hills's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
1,580
2232.3
1711
Larceny-Theft
1,269
1792.9
-
Burglary
168
237.4
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
143
202
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
158
223.2
352
Aggravated Assault
111
156.8
-
Rape
28
39.6
-
Robbery
16
22.6
-
Murder
3
4.2
-
North Richland Hills Crime Trend (2020-2024)
North Richland Hills 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
North Richland Hills Police Department
Reporting agency for North Richland Hills NIBRS-participating
North Richland Hills Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind North Richland Hills's 1,738 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 North Richland Hills in population. Their populations run from 65,243 to 77,571, against 70,780 here. Or use our
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North Richland Hills at 223.2/100K violent and 2,232.3/100K property - matched below outside Texas (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
How many crimes were reported in North Richland Hills?
In 2024, North Richland Hills reported 158 violent crimes and 1,580 property crimes, for a total of 1,738 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in North Richland Hills?
From 2023 to 2024, North Richland Hills's violent crime rate increased by 11.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 1.4%.
What is the most common crime in North Richland Hills?
The most common crime type in North Richland Hills is larceny-theft, accounting for 73.0% of all reported crimes (1,269 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: North Richland Hills'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 North Richland Hills, TX rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.