County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Matagorda County, TX
Matagorda County (36,255 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Texas. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Matagorda County, TX reported 254 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Matagorda County, TX agencies reported 92 violent and 205 property offenses. That equals about 254 violent and 565 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
92 violent offenses
254/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Matagorda County, TX
Position in the state cohort
Matagorda County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Texas counties
At 253.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Matagorda County ranks 6 of 231 — above 225 of the 230 other Texas counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +217.0% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 193.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 253.8 in 2024 (+31.4%). The highest observed value was 270.3 in 2022 and the lowest 193.1 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 31.0% of the 297 Part I offenses reported in Matagorda County for 2024, against a median of 20.0% across comparable Texas counties — a gap of 11.0 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.
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
205
Burglary
45
Larceny-Theft
130
Motor Vehicle Theft
30
Arson
0
Violent Crime
92
Murder
1
Rape
8
Robbery
2
Aggravated Assault
81
Reporting Agency
Matagorda County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Matagorda County's crime figures on this page originate from Matagorda 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.