Per resident, Balcones Heights records more crime than almost every U.S. town
Counting crimes Balcones Heights’ police reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades D− for safety. In a usual year, 17.4 violent crimes and 116.6 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the rest of Texas, 4.3 and 23.5. It has more violent crime than 100% of U.S. towns, and more property crime than 100%.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of TX” is every other Texas city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What stands out about safety in Balcones Heights
A job center
Balcones Heights has 2,452 jobs based in town for 2,728 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Balcones Heights’ grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are higher than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the closer of the two to typical.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Balcones Heights | Rest of Texas | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 15.9 | 5.1 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 16.3 | 4.7 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 17.2 | 4.4 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 18.5 | 3.8 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Balcones Heights’ police reported 140 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 17.4 per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.3 in the rest of Texas and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Balcones Heights per 1,000 residents
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And about 19 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Balcones Heights property | Rest of Texas property | Balcones Heights violent | Rest of Texas violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 104.1 | 27.3 | 15.9 | 5.1 |
| 2023 | 101.3 | 26.3 | 16.3 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 131.0 | 23.9 | 17.2 | 4.4 |
| 2025 | 117.5 | 20.6 | 18.5 | 3.8 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Texas.
367 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
50 violent and 317 property, as reported to the FBI by Balcones Heights’ police.
Four people died in crashes on Balcones Heights’s roads in 2019–2023
Balcones Heights had 4 fatal crashes in five years, in which four people died; 1 was a pedestrian. Most of these deaths (4 of 4) were on an Interstate passing through, so they say more about through-traffic than about the town’s own streets.
That is more than is typical for Texas towns of 2,500–5,000 people: at their median rate (5.8 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Balcones Heights’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Balcones Heights’s own rate (29.5) is context, not a ranking.
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
Balcones Heights and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Balcones Heights | D− | 17.4 | 116.6 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Texas towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Balcones Heights | D− | 17.4 | 116.6 |
| Stanton | B− | 1.6 | 13.0 |
| Refugio | B− | 3.0 | 8.1 |
| Jonestown | B− | 1.7 | 13.1 |
| Hallettsville | C+ | 4.2 | 8.4 |
| Hudson Oaks | C− | 2.2 | 28.0 |
The five graded Texas towns closest to Balcones Heights’ population (2,728), by grade.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- One number for all of Balcones Heights. A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Balcones Heights’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (2,698 in 2025); our figure for Balcones Heights is 2,728 (2025 Census estimate).
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in Balcones Heights
Is Balcones Heights, TX safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Balcones Heights reports more crime per resident than 100% of U.S. towns, a D− Safety Grade. Its police reported 17.4 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.3 in the rest of Texas and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Balcones Heights?
17.4 violent and 116.6 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Texas reports 4.3 and 23.5; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Who polices Balcones Heights?
Balcones Heights’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Balcones Heights”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.