Pearland, TX has a A safety grade (78/100) with a violent crime rate of 96 per 100,000, 73% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Pearland, TX Crime Rate & Safety
At 128,322 residents, Pearland 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.
Pearland, TX carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 73% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Pearland, TX shows violent crime at 95.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,440.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 73% 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
95.9/100K violent
1440.1/100K property
-73% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Pearland, TX
Comparable rate records
Pearland's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Texas cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Pearland's 95.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Cedar Park (95.7), Smithville (95.6), Iowa Colony (96.5), West Lake Hills (96.7). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Pearland sits mid-pack among comparable Texas cities
At 95.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Pearland ranks 512 of 686 — above 174 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -46.7% 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.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 6.2% of the 1,971 Part I offenses reported in Pearland for 2024, against a median of 14.4% across comparable Texas cities — a gap of 8.1 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 dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 83.7% of reported property offenses in Pearland, against a cohort median of 71.6%. The remainder is burglary (185) and motor vehicle theft (116). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 103.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 95.9 in 2024 (-7.0%). The highest observed value was 112.2 in 2023 and the lowest 95.9 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Pearland'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.
Pearland's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 48.7 Census sq mi, Pearland logged 37.9 property and 2.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Pearland's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (78% of 1,971 offenses; mix index 6,299).
Violent offenses are only 6% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (48.7 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Both rates shifted (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-14.5%
112.2 → 95.9/100K
Property Crime Rate
-13.9%
1673 → 1440.1/100K
Property offenses lead Pearland's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs TX
Property Crime
1,848
1440.1
2058.2
Larceny-Theft
1,547
1205.6
-
Burglary
185
144.2
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
116
90.4
-
Arson
2
1.6
-
Violent Crime
123
95.9
394.7
Aggravated Assault
70
54.6
-
Rape
31
24.2
-
Robbery
19
14.8
-
Murder
3
2.3
-
Pearland Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Pearland 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
Pearland Police Department
Reporting agency for Pearland NIBRS-participating
Pearland Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Pearland's 1,971 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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In 2024, Pearland reported 123 violent crimes and 1,848 property crimes, for a total of 1,971 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Pearland?
From 2023 to 2024, Pearland's violent crime rate decreased by 14.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 13.9%.
What is the most common crime in Pearland?
The most common crime type in Pearland is larceny-theft, accounting for 78.5% of all reported crimes (1,547 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Pearland'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 Pearland, TX rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.