County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Smith County, TX
At 233,479 residents, Smith County is a large county in Texas. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Smith County, TX reported 124 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Smith County, TX agencies reported 290 violent and 796 property offenses. That equals about 124 violent and 341 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
290 violent offenses
124/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Smith County, TX
Position in the state cohort
Smith County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Texas counties
At 124.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Smith County ranks 58 of 231 — above 173 of the 230 other Texas counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +55.2% 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 156.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 124.2 in 2024 (-20.8%). The highest observed value was 156.8 in 2020 and the lowest 116.1 in 2023. 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 26.7% of the 1,086 Part I offenses reported in Smith County for 2024, against a median of 20.0% across comparable Texas counties — a gap of 6.7 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.
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
796
Burglary
180
Larceny-Theft
487
Motor Vehicle Theft
129
Arson
1
Violent Crime
290
Murder
7
Rape
53
Robbery
8
Aggravated Assault
222
Reporting Agency
Smith County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Smith County's crime figures on this page originate from Smith 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.