Temple, TX has a C safety grade (48/100) with a violent crime rate of 317 per 100,000, 10% below the national average.
At 96,862 residents, Temple 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.
Temple, TX carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 10% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Temple, TX shows violent crime at 316.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,362.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 10% 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.
The verdict
Temple earns a C safety grade: violent crime runs 10% below the U.S. average, placing it higher-crime than most U.S. cities.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Temple's 316.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Odessa (316.3), Stafford (319.0), Willis (321.9), West Orange (321.9). 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 316.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Temple ranks 189 of 686 — above 497 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +77.1% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 380.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 316.9 in 2024 (-16.7%). The highest observed value was 386.8 in 2023 and the lowest 298.8 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Temple'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.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 2,288 | 2362.1 |
| Larceny-Theft | 1,594 | 1645.6 |
| Burglary | 353 | 364.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 341 | 352 |
| Arson | 15 | 15.5 |
| Violent Crime | 307 | 316.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 189 | 195.1 |
| Rape | 71 | 73.3 |
| Robbery | 36 | 37.2 |
| Murder | 11 | 11.4 |
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 | 79,878 | 380.6 | 2625.3 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 82,333 | 298.8 | 2104.9 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 88,484 | 345.8 | 1769.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 93,073 | 386.8 | 1987.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 96,862 | 316.9 | 2362.1 |
Temple's crime figures on this page originate from Temple Police Department's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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 Temple in population. Their populations run from 87,740 to 107,757, against 96,862 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
These Texas cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Temple's 316.9/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Large-city read: Temple'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.
Large-city rate methodology for how Temple's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Temple, TX rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Temple is scored here as a large city UCR reporter (96,862 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.