Rockwall, TX has a B safety grade (73/100) with a violent crime rate of 146 per 100,000, 58% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Rockwall, TX Crime Rate & Safety
At 54,765 residents, Rockwall 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.
Rockwall, 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, Rockwall, TX shows violent crime at 146.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,373.1 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
146.1/100K violent
1373.1/100K property
-58% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Rockwall, TX
Comparable rate records
Rockwall's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Texas cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Rockwall's 146.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Godley (146.5), Jersey Village (145.5), Richardson (146.7), Kerrville (147.2). 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 dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 85.2% of reported property offenses in Rockwall, against a cohort median of 71.6%. The remainder is burglary (64) and motor vehicle theft (47). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 9.6% of the 832 Part I offenses reported in Rockwall for 2024, against a median of 14.4% across comparable Texas cities — a gap of 4.7 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.
Position in the state cohort
Rockwall sits mid-pack among comparable Texas cities
At 146.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Rockwall ranks 407 of 686 — above 279 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -18.8% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 130.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 146.1 in 2024 (+12.2%). The highest observed value was 146.1 in 2024 and the lowest 104.4 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Rockwall'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.
Rockwall's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 29.6 Census sq mi, Rockwall logged 25.4 property and 2.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Rockwall's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (77% of 832 offenses; mix index 6,084).
Violent offenses are only 10% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (29.6 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
+25.9%
116 → 146.1/100K
Property Crime Rate
-2.4%
1407.4 → 1373.1/100K
Property offenses lead Rockwall's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs TX
Property Crime
752
1373.1
2058.2
Larceny-Theft
641
1170.5
-
Burglary
64
116.9
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
47
85.8
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
80
146.1
394.7
Aggravated Assault
62
113.2
-
Rape
9
16.4
-
Robbery
8
14.6
-
Murder
1
1.8
-
Rockwall Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Rockwall 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
Rockwall Police Department
Reporting agency for Rockwall NIBRS-participating
Rockwall Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Rockwall's 832 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, Rockwall reported 80 violent crimes and 752 property crimes, for a total of 832 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Rockwall?
From 2023 to 2024, Rockwall's violent crime rate increased by 25.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 2.4%.
What is the most common crime in Rockwall?
The most common crime type in Rockwall is larceny-theft, accounting for 77.0% of all reported crimes (641 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Rockwall'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 Rockwall, TX rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.