San Benito, TX has a C safety grade (48/100) with a violent crime rate of 263 per 100,000, 25% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
San Benito (24,382 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
San Benito, TX is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 25% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, San Benito, TX shows violent crime at 262.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,899.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 25% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 812.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 262.5 in 2024 (-67.7%). The highest observed value was 812.8 in 2020 and the lowest 262.5 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to San Benito's 262.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Lake Jackson (260.5), Electra (265.0), Roma (259.7), Rockport (258.9). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 262.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, San Benito ranks 228 of 686 — above 458 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +46.7% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 8.3% of the 771 Part I offenses reported in San Benito for 2024, against a median of 14.4% across comparable Texas cities — a gap of 6.0 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 81.0% of reported property offenses in San Benito, against a cohort median of 71.6%. The remainder is burglary (68) and motor vehicle theft (66). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate San Benito'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 15.8 Census sq mi, San Benito logged 44.7 property and 4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
San Benito's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (74% of 771 offenses; mix index 5,726).
Violent offenses are only 8% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
San Benito offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (15.8 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 | 707 | 2899.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 573 | 2350.1 |
| Burglary | 68 | 278.9 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 66 | 270.7 |
| Arson | 1 | 4.1 |
| Violent Crime | 64 | 262.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 55 | 225.6 |
| Robbery | 8 | 32.8 |
| Murder | 1 | 4.1 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
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 | 24,237 | 812.8 | 2797.4 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 24,065 | 598.4 | 1936.4 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 24,712 | 509.9 | 1752.2 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 24,578 | 309.2 | 3234.6 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 24,382 | 262.5 | 2899.7 |
San Benito Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind San Benito's 771 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 Benito in population. Their populations run from 24,056 to 25,126, against 24,382 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
San Benito sits at 262.5/100K violent (grade C); the Texas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
San Benito at 262.5/100K violent and 2,899.7/100K property - matched below outside Texas (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
262.5/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,899.7/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, San Benito reported 64 violent crimes and 707 property crimes, for a total of 771 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, San Benito's violent crime rate decreased by 15.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 10.4%.
The most common crime type in San Benito is larceny-theft, accounting for 74.3% of all reported crimes (573 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: San Benito 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 San Benito's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 San Benito, TX rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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