County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Wharton County, TX
Wharton County (41,570 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Texas. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Wharton County, TX reported 111 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Wharton County, TX agencies reported 46 violent and 175 property offenses. That equals about 111 violent and 421 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
46 violent offenses
111/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Wharton County, TX
Position in the state cohort
Wharton County sits mid-pack among comparable Texas counties
At 110.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Wharton County ranks 69 of 231 — above 162 of the 230 other Texas counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +38.2% 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 137.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 110.7 in 2024 (-19.3%). The highest observed value was 197.3 in 2022 and the lowest 93.8 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 70.9% of reported property offenses in Wharton County, against a cohort median of 59.6%. The remainder is burglary (37) and motor vehicle theft (14). 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
175
Burglary
37
Larceny-Theft
124
Motor Vehicle Theft
14
Arson
4
Violent Crime
46
Murder
0
Rape
11
Robbery
1
Aggravated Assault
34
Reporting Agency
Wharton County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Wharton County's crime figures on this page originate from Wharton 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.