Pecos, TX has a F safety grade (24/100) with a violent crime rate of 699 per 100,000, 99% above the national average.
Pecos is a small municipal reporter (9,154 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with TX and U.S. context.
Pecos, TX carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 99% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Pecos, TX shows violent crime at 699.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 786.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 99% 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.
The verdict
Pecos earns an F safety grade: violent crime runs 99% above the U.S. average, placing it among the highest-crime cities in the country.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 47.1% of the 136 Part I offenses reported in Pecos for 2024, against a median of 14.3% across comparable Texas cities — a gap of 32.8 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
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 412.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 699.1 in 2024 (+69.5%). The highest observed value was 783.7 in 2023 and the lowest 412.5 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
At 699.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Pecos ranks 27 of 686 — above 659 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +290.7% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Pecos's 699.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are South Houston (694.4), Amarillo (690.5), Daingerfield (680.3), Port Arthur (718.5). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 62.5% of reported property offenses in Pecos, against a cohort median of 71.6%. The remainder is burglary (20) and motor vehicle theft (7). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Pecos's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row keeps violent and property totals in a closer balance. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters 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.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 72 | 786.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 45 | 491.6 |
| Burglary | 20 | 218.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 7 | 76.5 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 64 | 699.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 59 | 644.5 |
| Rape | 3 | 32.8 |
| Murder | 1 | 10.9 |
| Robbery | 1 | 10.9 |
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 10,667 | 412.5 | 1434.3 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 10,675 | 571.4 | 1114.8 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 12,483 | 568.8 | 809.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 10,335 | 783.7 | 687 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 9,154 | 699.1 | 786.5 |
Pecos's crime figures on this page originate from Pecos Police Department's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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 Pecos in population. Their populations run from 8,911 to 9,425, against 9,154 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
These Texas cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Pecos's 699.1/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Small-city read: Pecos 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 Pecos's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Pecos, TX rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Pecos is scored as a small-city UCR reporter (9,154 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.