County crime profile · 2024 · very large county · property-led
Harris County, TX
At 4,731,145 residents, Harris 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).
Harris County, TX reported 162 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Harris County, TX agencies reported 7,666 violent and 33,050 property offenses. That equals about 162 violent and 699 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
7,666 violent offenses
162/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Harris County, TX
Position in the state cohort
Harris County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Texas counties
At 162.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Harris County ranks 33 of 231 — above 198 of the 230 other Texas counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +102.4% against the cohort median of 80.1. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Share of the state cohort
Harris County carries a large share of the reporting cohort’s total offenses
The 40,716 Part I offenses reported here are 37.3% of the 109,104 reported across all 231 comparable Texas counties in 2024. A county this large moves the statewide total on its own, so state-level changes should be read against its population of 4,731,145 rather than as a uniform shift.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 186.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 162.0 in 2024 (-13.0%). The highest observed value was 215.0 in 2023 and the lowest 162.0 in 2024. 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
33,050
Burglary
4,947
Larceny-Theft
21,886
Motor Vehicle Theft
6,217
Arson
26
Violent Crime
7,666
Murder
114
Rape
926
Robbery
1,377
Aggravated Assault
5,249
Reporting Agency
Harris County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Harris County's crime figures on this page originate from Harris 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
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Texas counties closest to Harris County in population. Their populations run from 1,064,465 to 2,613,539, against 4,731,145 here. Or launch the
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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.