The Colony, TX carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 46% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, The Colony, TX shows violent crime at 190.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,378.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 46% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
B safety grade
190.3/100K violent
1378.3/100K property
-46% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for The Colony, TX
Comparable rate records
The Colony's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Texas cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to The Colony's 190.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are La Villa (189.9), Georgetown (191.1), Rio Grande City (189.3), Mission (189.1). 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 314.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 190.3 in 2024 (-39.5%). The highest observed value was 427.9 in 2021 and the lowest 190.3 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 80.5% of reported property offenses in The Colony, against a cohort median of 71.6%. The remainder is burglary (60) and motor vehicle theft (63). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
The Colony sits mid-pack among comparable Texas cities
At 190.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, The Colony ranks 325 of 686 — above 361 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +6.4% 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.
Property counts dominate The Colony'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.
The Colony's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 14 Census sq mi, The Colony logged 45 property and 6.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
The Colony's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (71% of 717 offenses; mix index 5,225).
Violent offenses are only 12% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (14 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-44.9%
2500.5 → 1378.3/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-1.2%
192.7 → 190.3/100K
Property offenses lead The Colony's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs TX
Property Crime
630
1378.3
2058.2
Larceny-Theft
507
1109.2
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
63
137.8
-
Burglary
60
131.3
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
87
190.3
394.7
Aggravated Assault
60
131.3
-
Rape
18
39.4
-
Robbery
8
17.5
-
Murder
1
2.2
-
The Colony Crime Trend (2020-2024)
The Colony property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
The Colony Police Department
Reporting agency for The Colony NIBRS-participating
The Colony Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind The Colony's 717 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.
Similar-Size Cities in Texas
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Texas cities closest to The Colony in population. Their populations run from 43,212 to 47,900, against 45,708 here. Or use our
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In 2024, The Colony reported 87 violent crimes and 630 property crimes, for a total of 717 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in The Colony?
From 2023 to 2024, The Colony's violent crime rate decreased by 1.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 44.9%.
What is the most common crime in The Colony?
The most common crime type in The Colony is larceny-theft, accounting for 70.7% of all reported crimes (507 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: The Colony 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 The Colony, TX rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.