County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Rusk County, TX
At 52,214 residents, Rusk County is a large county in Texas. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Rusk County, TX reported 115 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Rusk County, TX agencies reported 60 violent and 286 property offenses. That equals about 115 violent and 548 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
60 violent offenses
115/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Rusk County, TX
Position in the state cohort
Rusk County sits mid-pack among comparable Texas counties
At 114.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Rusk County ranks 62 of 231 — above 169 of the 230 other Texas counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +43.5% 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 lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 124.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 114.9 in 2024 (-7.7%). The highest observed value was 157.0 in 2021 and the lowest 68.9 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
On a 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 · large county
Category
Count
Property Crime
286
Burglary
69
Larceny-Theft
184
Motor Vehicle Theft
33
Arson
0
Violent Crime
60
Murder
1
Rape
16
Robbery
2
Aggravated Assault
41
Reporting Agency
Rusk County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Rusk County's crime figures on this page originate from Rusk 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.