Santa Anna, TX has a A safety grade (79/100) with a violent crime rate of 193 per 100,000, 45% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Santa Anna's UCR row covers a small municipal population (1,036). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to TX and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Santa Anna, TX is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 45% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Santa Anna, TX shows violent crime at 193.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 193.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 45% 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
Santa Anna reported 2 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 1,036. 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 50.0% of the 4 Part I offenses reported in Santa Anna for 2024, against a median of 14.3% across comparable Texas cities — a gap of 35.7 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 0.0% of reported property offenses in Santa Anna, against a cohort median of 71.6%. The remainder is burglary (2) and motor vehicle theft (0). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Santa Anna's 193.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Karnes City (192.8), Silsbee (193.4), Hemphill (193.4), Pleasanton (193.5). 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
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 300.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 193.1 in 2024 (-35.8%). The highest observed value was 300.6 in 2020 and the lowest 191.4 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 193.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Santa Anna ranks 322 of 686 — above 364 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +7.9% 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.
Santa Anna's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row keeps violent and property totals in a closer balance. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Based on 2 reported violent incidents in a population of 1,036. 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.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Across 2 Census sq mi, Santa Anna logged 1 property and 1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Santa Anna leans on burglary at 50% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,750.
Violent offenses are 50% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small municipal.
Santa Anna offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (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 | 2 | 193.1 |
| Burglary | 2 | 193.1 |
| Larceny-Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 2 | 193.1 |
| Robbery | 1 | 96.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 1 | 96.5 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 998 | 300.6 | 400.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 995 | 201 | 904.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 1,029 | 194.4 | 194.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 1,045 | 191.4 | 287.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 1,036 | 193.1 | 193.1 |
Santa Anna Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Santa Anna's 4 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 Santa Anna in population. Their populations run from 998 to 1,075, against 1,036 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, Santa Anna reported 2 violent crimes and 2 property crimes, for a total of 4 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Santa Anna's violent crime rate increased by 0.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 32.7%.
The most common crime type in Santa Anna is burglary, accounting for 50.0% of all reported crimes (2 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Santa Anna's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Santa Anna's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Santa Anna, TX rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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