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

Wise County, TX

At 68,632 residents, Wise 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

527
Property offenses
77
Violent offenses
604
Total · 2024

Wise County, TX reported 112 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Wise County, TX agencies reported 77 violent and 527 property offenses. That equals about 112 violent and 768 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
  • 77 violent offenses
  • 112/100K violent rate

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

Position in the state cohort

Wise County sits mid-pack among comparable Texas counties

At 112.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Wise County ranks 65 of 231 — above 166 of the 230 other Texas counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +40.1% 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 12.7% of the 604 Part I offenses reported in Wise County for 2024, against a median of 20.0% across comparable Texas counties — a gap of 7.3 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.

Property-offense composition

Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort

Larceny-theft is 45.9% of reported property offenses in Wise County, against a cohort median of 59.6%. The remainder is burglary (245) and motor vehicle theft (40). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.

2020–2024 direction

The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower

Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 134.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 112.2 in 2024 (-16.3%). The highest observed value was 160.3 in 2023 and the lowest 112.2 in 2024. 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 527
Burglary 245
Larceny-Theft 242
Motor Vehicle Theft 40
Arson 3
Violent Crime 77
Murder 2
Rape 14
Robbery 1
Aggravated Assault 60

Reporting Agency

Wise County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating

Wise County's crime figures on this page originate from Wise 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 Wise County in population. Their populations run from 61,598 to 76,400, against 68,632 here. Or launch the side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two jurisdictions directly.

Nationwide peers for Wise County

Similar violent rate (~112/100K)

Similar property rate (~768/100K)

ZIP Codes in Wise 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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