Richardson, TX has a B safety grade (69/100) with a violent crime rate of 147 per 100,000, 58% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Richardson, TX Crime Rate & Safety
At 117,962 residents, Richardson 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.
Richardson, TX carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 58% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Richardson, TX shows violent crime at 146.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,833.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 58% 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
146.7/100K violent
1833.6/100K property
-58% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Richardson, TX
Comparable rate records
Richardson's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Texas cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Richardson's 146.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Godley (146.5), Kerrville (147.2), Rockwall (146.1), Jersey Village (145.5). 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.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 7.4% of the 2,336 Part I offenses reported in Richardson for 2024, against a median of 14.4% across comparable Texas cities — a gap of 6.9 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 124.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 146.7 in 2024 (+17.5%). The highest observed value was 157.2 in 2022 and the lowest 124.8 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
Richardson sits mid-pack among comparable Texas cities
At 146.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Richardson ranks 405 of 686 — above 281 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -18.5% 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 Richardson'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.
Richardson's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 28.6 Census sq mi, Richardson logged 75.7 property and 6.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Richardson's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (65% of 2,336 offenses; mix index 4,689).
Violent offenses are only 7% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (28.6 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
+16.4%
126 → 146.7/100K
Property Crime Rate
-9.6%
2029.3 → 1833.6/100K
Property offenses lead Richardson's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs TX
Property Crime
2,163
1833.6
2058.2
Larceny-Theft
1,528
1295.3
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
375
317.9
-
Burglary
260
220.4
-
Arson
4
3.4
-
Violent Crime
173
146.7
394.7
Aggravated Assault
116
98.3
-
Robbery
45
38.1
-
Rape
10
8.5
-
Murder
2
1.7
-
Richardson Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Richardson 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
Richardson Police Department
Reporting agency for Richardson NIBRS-participating
Richardson Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Richardson's 2,336 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, Richardson reported 173 violent crimes and 2,163 property crimes, for a total of 2,336 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Richardson?
From 2023 to 2024, Richardson's violent crime rate increased by 16.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 9.6%.
What is the most common crime in Richardson?
The most common crime type in Richardson is larceny-theft, accounting for 65.4% of all reported crimes (1,528 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Richardson'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 Richardson, TX rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.