Royse City, TX has a A safety grade (82/100) with a violent crime rate of 103 per 100,000, 71% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Royse City (29,149 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then TX and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Royse City, TX is safer than most U.S. cities, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 71% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Royse City, TX shows violent crime at 102.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 898.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 71% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Royse City's 102.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Van (102.5), Coppell (103.5), League City (103.5), Waelder (103.8). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 149.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 102.9 in 2024 (-31.1%). The highest observed value was 257.9 in 2022 and the lowest 102.9 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 102.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Royse City ranks 495 of 686 — above 191 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -42.8% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 10.3% of the 292 Part I offenses reported in Royse City for 2024, against a median of 14.4% across comparable Texas cities — a gap of 4.1 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 counts dominate Royse 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 20.2 Census sq mi, Royse City logged 13 property and 1.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Royse City's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (70% of 292 offenses; mix index 5,179).
Violent offenses are only 10% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Royse City offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (20.2 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 262 | 898.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 205 | 703.3 |
| Burglary | 37 | 126.9 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 20 | 68.6 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 30 | 102.9 |
| Rape | 15 | 51.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 11 | 37.7 |
| Robbery | 4 | 13.7 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 15,388 | 149.5 | 1312.7 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 16,013 | 162.4 | 1480 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 18,613 | 257.9 | 1713.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 23,763 | 197.8 | 1451.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 29,149 | 102.9 | 898.8 |
Royse City Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Royse City's 292 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Texas cities closest to Royse City in population. Their populations run from 27,141 to 31,189, against 29,149 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Royse City sits at 102.9/100K violent (grade A); the Texas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Royse City at 102.9/100K violent and 898.8/100K property - matched below outside Texas (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
102.9/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
898.8/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Royse City reported 30 violent crimes and 262 property crimes, for a total of 292 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Royse City's violent crime rate decreased by 48%, and the property crime rate decreased by 38.1%.
The most common crime type in Royse City is larceny-theft, accounting for 70.2% of all reported crimes (205 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Royse City figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Royse City's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Royse City, TX rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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