Temple, TX has a C safety grade (48/100) with a violent crime rate of 317 per 100,000, 10% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
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.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Temple, TX is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 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.
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.
Across 73 Census sq mi, Temple logged 31.3 property and 4.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Temple's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 2,595 offenses; mix index 4,194).
Violent offenses are only 12% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Temple offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (73 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 | 2,288 | 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 Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Temple's 2,595 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 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.
Temple sits at 316.9/100K violent (grade C); the Texas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Temple at 316.9/100K violent and 2,362.1/100K property - matched below outside Texas (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
316.9/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,362.1/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-18.1% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Temple reported 307 violent crimes and 2,288 property crimes, for a total of 2,595 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Temple's violent crime rate decreased by 18.1%, and the property crime rate increased by 18.8%.
The most common crime type in Temple is larceny-theft, accounting for 61.4% of all reported crimes (1,594 incidents in 2024).
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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