San Antonio, TX has a F safety grade (11/100) with a violent crime rate of 594 per 100,000, 69% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · very large city
At 1,514,458 residents, San Antonio is a very large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against TX and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-08-24
San Antonio, TX carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 69% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, San Antonio, TX shows violent crime at 594.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 4,623.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 69% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 594.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, San Antonio ranks 38 of 686 — above 648 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +232.0% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to San Antonio's 594.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Trenton (595.9), Alba (590.6), Carthage (604.6), Bay City (580.3). 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 744.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 594.1 in 2024 (-20.2%). The highest observed value was 893.9 in 2022 and the lowest 594.1 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate San Antonio'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 very large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Across 498.9 Census sq mi, San Antonio logged 140.3 property and 18 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
San Antonio's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (63% of 79,021 offenses; mix index 4,391).
Violent offenses are only 11% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
San Antonio offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (498.9 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 | 70,023 | 4623.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 49,853 | 3291.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 12,665 | 836.3 |
| Burglary | 7,505 | 495.6 |
| Arson | 177 | 11.7 |
| Violent Crime | 8,998 | 594.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 5,963 | 393.7 |
| Robbery | 1,641 | 108.4 |
| Rape | 1,267 | 83.7 |
| Murder | 127 | 8.4 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 1,573,189 | 744.8 | 3657.9 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 1,592,693 | 704.2 | 3865.2 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 1,465,608 | 893.9 | 5102.7 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 1,490,047 | 700.2 | 5422 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 1,514,458 | 594.1 | 4623.6 |
San Antonio Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind San Antonio's 79,021 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 San Antonio in population. Their populations run from 291,463 to 2,319,160, against 1,514,458 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
San Antonio sits at 594.1/100K violent (grade F); the Texas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
San Antonio at 594.1/100K violent and 4,623.6/100K property - matched below outside Texas (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
594.1/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
4,623.6/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-15.2% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, San Antonio reported 8,998 violent crimes and 70,023 property crimes, for a total of 79,021 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, San Antonio's violent crime rate decreased by 15.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 14.7%.
The most common crime type in San Antonio is larceny-theft, accounting for 63.1% of all reported crimes (49,853 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: San Antonio'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 (very large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Large-city rate methodology for how San Antonio's very large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 San Antonio, TX rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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