San Saba, TX has a A+ safety grade (95/100) with a violent crime rate of 32 per 100,000, 91% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
San Saba is a small municipal reporter (3,116 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with TX and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
San Saba, TX is among the safest cities in the country, and earns an A+ PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 91% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, San Saba, TX shows violent crime at 32.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 256.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 91% 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.
Small-count caution
San Saba reported 1 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 3,116. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 410.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 32.1 in 2024 (-92.2%). The highest observed value was 410.9 in 2020 and the lowest 32.1 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 32.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, San Saba ranks 605 of 686 — above 81 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -82.2% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to San Saba's 32.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Southlake (32.2), Poteet (32.7), Presidio (32.7), Parker (31.1). 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 is 50.0% of reported property offenses in San Saba, against a cohort median of 71.6%. The remainder is burglary (2) and motor vehicle theft (2). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 11.1% of the 9 Part I offenses reported in San Saba for 2024, against a median of 14.4% across comparable Texas cities — a gap of 3.2 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 San Saba'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.
Based on 1 reported violent incidents in a population of 3,116. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 2.7 Census sq mi, San Saba logged 3 property and 0.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
San Saba leans on larceny-theft at 44% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,086.
Violent offenses are only 11% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
San Saba offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2.7 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 | 8 | 256.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 4 | 128.4 |
| Burglary | 2 | 64.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 2 | 64.2 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 1 | 32.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 1 | 32.1 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 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 | 3,164 | 410.9 | 1295.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 3,135 | 287.1 | 925 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 3,197 | 156.4 | 969.7 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 3,135 | 127.6 | 287.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 3,116 | 32.1 | 256.7 |
San Saba Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind San Saba's 9 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 Saba in population. Their populations run from 3,057 to 3,177, against 3,116 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, San Saba reported 1 violent crimes and 8 property crimes, for a total of 9 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, San Saba's violent crime rate decreased by 74.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 10.6%.
The most common crime type in San Saba is larceny-theft, accounting for 44.4% of all reported crimes (4 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: San Saba is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how San Saba's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 San Saba, TX rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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