County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Howard County, TX
Howard County (34,860 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Texas. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Howard County, TX reported 126 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Howard County, TX agencies reported 44 violent and 288 property offenses. That equals about 126 violent and 826 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
44 violent offenses
126/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Howard County, TX
Position in the state cohort
Howard County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Texas counties
At 126.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Howard County ranks 55 of 231 — above 176 of the 230 other Texas counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +57.7% 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.
2021–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 103.3 per 100,000 in 2021 to 126.2 in 2024 (+22.2%). The highest observed value was 140.6 in 2023 and the lowest 103.3 in 2021. 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 13.3% of the 332 Part I offenses reported in Howard County for 2024, against a median of 20.0% across comparable Texas counties — a gap of 6.8 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 74.3% of reported property offenses in Howard County, against a cohort median of 59.6%. The remainder is burglary (40) and motor vehicle theft (34). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Mid-size county rows still aggregate voluntary UCR submissions. Per-100,000 rates need a matched 2020 Census population; unmatched stay count-only. County-wide totals rarely describe any single town inside the line.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · mid-size county
Category
Count
Property Crime
288
Burglary
40
Larceny-Theft
214
Motor Vehicle Theft
34
Arson
1
Violent Crime
44
Murder
0
Rape
3
Robbery
1
Aggravated Assault
40
Reporting Agency
Howard County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Howard County's crime figures on this page originate from Howard 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.