Wake Village, TX is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 56% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Wake Village, TX shows violent crime at 156.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 884.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 56% 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.
A safety grade
156.1/100K violent
884.5/100K property
-56% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Wake Village, TX
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Wake Village reported 9 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 5,766. 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.
Comparable rate records
Wake Village's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Texas cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Wake Village's 156.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Portland (156.1), New Braunfels (156.4), Rhome (156.5), Childress (155.6). 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 207.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 156.1 in 2024 (-24.7%). The highest observed value was 207.2 in 2020 and the lowest 34.1 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Wake Village sits mid-pack among comparable Texas cities
At 156.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Wake Village ranks 382 of 686 — above 304 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -13.2% 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.
Property counts dominate Wake Village'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 9 reported violent incidents in a population of 5,766. 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.
Wake Village's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 3 Census sq mi, Wake Village logged 17.1 property and 3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Wake Village leans on larceny-theft at 55% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,831.
Violent offenses are 15% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+80.9%
86.3 → 156.1/100K
Property Crime Rate
+9%
811.2 → 884.5/100K
Property offenses lead Wake Village's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs TX
Property Crime
51
884.5
2058.2
Larceny-Theft
33
572.3
-
Burglary
16
277.5
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
2
34.7
-
Arson
1
17.3
-
Violent Crime
9
156.1
394.7
Robbery
4
69.4
-
Aggravated Assault
3
52
-
Rape
2
34.7
-
Murder
0
0
-
Wake Village Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Wake Village 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 averagesRead the chart as a list
Wake Village: 156 violent, 885 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Livingston: 469 violent, 3303 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Childress: 156 violent, 519 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Windcrest: 332 violent, 11183 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Luling: 310 violent, 1170 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Littlefield: 245 violent, 911 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Elsa: 298 violent, 3017 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Yoakum: 274 violent, 718 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Rockdale: 810 violent, 987 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Wake Village Police Department
Reporting agency for Wake Village NIBRS-participating
Wake Village Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Wake Village's 60 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 Wake Village in population. Their populations run from 5,676 to 5,848, against 5,766 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Wake Village reported 9 violent crimes and 51 property crimes, for a total of 60 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Wake Village?
From 2023 to 2024, Wake Village's violent crime rate increased by 80.9%, and the property crime rate increased by 9%.
What is the most common crime in Wake Village?
The most common crime type in Wake Village is larceny-theft, accounting for 55.0% of all reported crimes (33 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Wake Village 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Wake Village, TX rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.