Queen City, TX is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 19% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Queen City, TX shows violent crime at 285.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,072.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 19% 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
285.9/100K violent
1072.2/100K property
-19% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Queen City, TX
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Queen City reported 4 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 1,399. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Comparable rate records
Queen City's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Texas cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Queen City's 285.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Pantego (285.0), Aransas Pass (288.4), Whitney (282.9), Italy (282.8). 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
Queen City sits mid-pack among comparable Texas cities
At 285.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Queen City ranks 202 of 686 — above 484 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +59.8% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 21.1% of the 19 Part I offenses reported in Queen City for 2024, against a median of 14.3% across comparable Texas cities — a gap of 6.8 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 279.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 285.9 in 2024 (+2.4%). The highest observed value was 354.9 in 2021 and the lowest 279.3 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Queen City'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.
Based on 4 reported violent incidents in a population of 1,399. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Queen City's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 3.5 Census sq mi, Queen City logged 4.2 property and 1.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Queen City leans on larceny-theft at 53% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,380.
Violent offenses are 21% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (3.5 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
+24.1%
863.9 → 1072.2/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-0.7%
288 → 285.9/100K
Property offenses lead Queen City's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs TX
Property Crime
15
1072.2
2058.2
Larceny-Theft
10
714.8
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
3
214.4
-
Burglary
2
143
-
Arson
1
71.5
-
Violent Crime
4
285.9
394.7
Rape
2
143
-
Aggravated Assault
2
143
-
Murder
0
0
-
Robbery
0
0
-
Queen City Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Queen City property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Property crime rate (2024)
1,072.2/100K↑24.1%vs 2023
Queen City violent crime rate trend
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Violent crime rate (2024)
285.9/100K↓0.7%vs 2023
Year
Coverage
Population
Violent Rate
Property Rate
Total Crimes
2020
Comparable
1,432
279.3
1955.3
32
2021
Comparable
1,409
354.9
3193.8
50
2022
Comparable
1,410
283.7
1276.6
22
2023
Comparable
1,389
288
863.9
16
2024
Comparable
1,399
285.9
1072.2
19
Queen City Police Department
Reporting agency for Queen City NIBRS-participating
Queen City Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Queen City's 19 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 Queen City in population. Their populations run from 1,381 to 1,417, against 1,399 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Queen City reported 4 violent crimes and 15 property crimes, for a total of 19 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Queen City?
From 2023 to 2024, Queen City's violent crime rate decreased by 0.7%, and the property crime rate increased by 24.1%.
What is the most common crime in Queen City?
The most common crime type in Queen City is larceny-theft, accounting for 52.6% of all reported crimes (10 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Queen City's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Queen City, TX rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.