San Angelo, TX has a C safety grade (57/100) with a violent crime rate of 218 per 100,000, 38% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
San Angelo, TX Crime Rate & Safety
At 98,996 residents, San Angelo 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.
San Angelo, TX carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 38% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, San Angelo, TX shows violent crime at 218.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,486 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 38% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
C safety grade
218.2/100K violent
2486/100K property
-38% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for San Angelo, TX
Comparable rate records
San Angelo's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Texas cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to San Angelo's 218.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Castroville (218.5), Pelican Bay (217.6), River Oaks (219.6), Refugio (216.5). 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 377.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 218.2 in 2024 (-42.1%). The highest observed value was 377.0 in 2020 and the lowest 218.2 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 8.1% of the 2,677 Part I offenses reported in San Angelo for 2024, against a median of 14.4% across comparable Texas cities — a gap of 6.3 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
San Angelo sits mid-pack among comparable Texas cities
At 218.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, San Angelo ranks 288 of 686 — above 398 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +21.9% 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.
Property counts dominate San Angelo'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.
San Angelo's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 60.1 Census sq mi, San Angelo logged 41 property and 3.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
San Angelo's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (73% of 2,677 offenses; mix index 5,560).
Violent offenses are only 8% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (60.1 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
-25.8%
294 → 218.2/100K
Property Crime Rate
-5.8%
2639.8 → 2486/100K
Property offenses lead San Angelo's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
2,461
2486
1711
Larceny-Theft
1,947
1966.7
-
Burglary
384
387.9
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
130
131.3
-
Arson
5
5.1
-
Violent Crime
216
218.2
352
Aggravated Assault
168
169.7
-
Rape
24
24.2
-
Robbery
20
20.2
-
Murder
4
4
-
San Angelo Crime Trend (2020-2024)
San Angelo 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
San Angelo Police Department
Reporting agency for San Angelo NIBRS-participating
San Angelo Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind San Angelo's 2,677 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, San Angelo reported 216 violent crimes and 2,461 property crimes, for a total of 2,677 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in San Angelo?
From 2023 to 2024, San Angelo's violent crime rate decreased by 25.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 5.8%.
What is the most common crime in San Angelo?
The most common crime type in San Angelo is larceny-theft, accounting for 72.7% of all reported crimes (1,947 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: San Angelo'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 San Angelo, TX rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.