Wylie, TX has a A safety grade (86/100) with a violent crime rate of 66 per 100,000, 81% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Wylie, TX Crime Rate & Safety
At 62,210 residents, Wylie 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.
Wylie, TX carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 81% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Wylie, TX shows violent crime at 65.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 860 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 81% 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
65.9/100K violent
860/100K property
-81% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Wylie, TX
Comparable rate records
Wylie's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Texas cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Wylie's 65.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Meadows Place (66.0), Haskell (65.7), La Vernia (65.2), Shoreacres (66.7). 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
Wylie reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable Texas cities
At 65.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Wylie ranks 554 of 686 — above 132 of the 685 other Texas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -63.4% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 84.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 65.9 in 2024 (-22.0%). The highest observed value was 84.5 in 2020 and the lowest 59.1 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 7.1% of the 576 Part I offenses reported in Wylie for 2024, against a median of 14.4% across comparable Texas cities — a gap of 7.2 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 dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 86.9% of reported property offenses in Wylie, against a cohort median of 71.6%. The remainder is burglary (40) and motor vehicle theft (30). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Wylie'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.
Wylie's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 21.2 Census sq mi, Wylie logged 25.3 property and 1.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Wylie's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (81% of 576 offenses; mix index 6,608).
Violent offenses are only 7% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (21.2 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-17.6%
80 → 65.9/100K
Property Crime Rate
+11.8%
769.1 → 860/100K
Property offenses lead Wylie's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs TX
Property Crime
535
860
2058.2
Larceny-Theft
465
747.5
-
Burglary
40
64.3
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
30
48.2
-
Arson
4
6.4
-
Violent Crime
41
65.9
394.7
Aggravated Assault
15
24.1
-
Rape
13
20.9
-
Robbery
10
16.1
-
Murder
3
4.8
-
Wylie Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Wylie property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Wylie Police Department
Reporting agency for Wylie NIBRS-participating
Wylie Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Wylie's 576 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
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In 2024, Wylie reported 41 violent crimes and 535 property crimes, for a total of 576 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Wylie?
From 2023 to 2024, Wylie's violent crime rate decreased by 17.6%, and the property crime rate increased by 11.8%.
What is the most common crime in Wylie?
The most common crime type in Wylie is larceny-theft, accounting for 80.7% of all reported crimes (465 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Wylie'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.