County crime profile · 2024 · very large county · property-led
Bell County, TX
At 370,647 residents, Bell County is a very large county in Texas. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Bell County, TX reported 18 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Bell County, TX agencies reported 65 violent and 519 property offenses. That equals about 18 violent and 140 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
2024 UCR year
65 violent offenses
18/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Bell County, TX
Position in the state cohort
Bell County reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable Texas counties
At 17.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Bell County ranks 204 of 231 — above 27 of the 230 other Texas counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -78.2% against the cohort median of 80.3. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 11.1% of the 584 Part I offenses reported in Bell County for 2024, against a median of 20.0% across comparable Texas counties — a gap of 8.9 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 20.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 17.5 in 2024 (-12.2%). The highest observed value was 26.2 in 2022 and the lowest 17.3 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
On a very large county row, county figures aggregate every participating agency inside the county. Participation is voluntary. Per-100,000 rates use a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census county population, never a Table 10 field; unmatched counties stay count-only. A large county line encloses very different communities.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · very large county
Category
Count
Property Crime
519
Burglary
122
Larceny-Theft
333
Motor Vehicle Theft
64
Arson
8
Violent Crime
65
Murder
0
Rape
17
Robbery
1
Aggravated Assault
47
Reporting Agency
Bell County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Bell County's crime figures on this page originate from Bell County Sheriff's Office'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.
Similar-Size Counties in Texas
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Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States (CIUS) Table 10.
FBI Table 10 supplies county offense counts but no resident population. Where this page shows a per-100,000 rate, the denominator is a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census Bureau county population; unmatched county rows remain count-only. Statewide comparisons draw on the state UCR program. Verify with FBI.gov UCR and Census.gov QuickFacts.