County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led

Waller County, TX

At 56,794 residents, Waller County is a large county in Texas. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).

Data updated 2026-08-24

437
Property offenses
63
Violent offenses
500
Total · 2024

Waller County, TX reported 111 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Waller County, TX agencies reported 63 violent and 437 property offenses. That equals about 111 violent and 769 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
  • 63 violent offenses
  • 111/100K violent rate

What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Waller County, TX

Position in the state cohort

Waller County sits mid-pack among comparable Texas counties

At 110.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Waller County ranks 67 of 231 — above 164 of the 230 other Texas counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +38.6% 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.

Offense mix

The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort

Violent offenses are 12.6% of the 500 Part I offenses reported in Waller County for 2024, against a median of 20.0% across comparable Texas counties — a gap of 7.4 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.

2020–2024 direction

The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher

Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 105.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 110.9 in 2024 (+5.0%). The highest observed value was 147.9 in 2022 and the lowest 96.8 in 2021. 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 437
Burglary 76
Larceny-Theft 276
Motor Vehicle Theft 85
Arson 1
Violent Crime 63
Murder 3
Rape 13
Robbery 2
Aggravated Assault 45

Reporting Agency

Waller County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating

Waller County's crime figures on this page originate from Waller 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 Waller County in population. Their populations run from 52,598 to 59,541, against 56,794 here. Or launch the side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two jurisdictions directly.

Nationwide peers for Waller County

Similar violent rate (~111/100K)

Similar property rate (~769/100K)

ZIP Codes in Waller County

State atlas: Texas · Compare · Rankings

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.

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