Photo: Larry D. Moore · CC BY 4.0Reported crime per resident in Bee Cave fell 37% from 2023 to 2025
Overall, Bee Cave grades C for safety (#321 of 471 graded towns in Texas): more crime per resident than 72% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported to the FBI in 2023–2025.
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 Bee Cave
1 of the 2 graded towns next door reports less crime
Of the 2 Texas towns on Bee Cave’s borders, 2 have a Safety Grade: Lakeway (B+), Austin (D). Neighbors ↓
A job center
Bee Cave has 9,546 jobs based in town for 8,464 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
Reported crime is falling
Crime reported per resident fell from 2023 to 2025 by more than ordinary year-to-year swings, on the grade’s own score. Trend ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Bee Cave’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Violent crime holds Bee Cave’s grade up; property crime pulls it down.
Reported crime is falling
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Texas.
Show as a table
| Year | Bee Cave property | Rest of Texas property | Bee Cave violent | Rest of Texas violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 17.8 | 27.3 | 1.4 | 5.1 |
| 2023 | 26.9 | 26.3 | 2.3 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 26.6 | 23.9 | 1.5 | 4.4 |
| 2025 | 17.5 | 20.6 | 0.8 | 3.8 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Violent crime, by year and by type
Bee Cave’s police reported 40 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.6 per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.3 in the rest of Texas and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Show as a table
| Year | Bee Cave | Rest of Texas | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.4 | 5.1 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 2.3 | 4.7 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.5 | 4.4 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.8 | 3.8 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
For every 1,000 residents, about 18 property crimes reported
And about 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
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.
153 crimes reported in 2025
7 violent and 146 property, as reported to the FBI by Bee Cave’s police.
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
Five people died in crashes on Bee Cave’s roads in 2019–2023
Bee Cave had 5 fatal crashes in five years, in which five people died; 2 were pedestrians.
That is about what is typical for Texas towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (7.3 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Bee Cave’s size would see about 3 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Bee Cave’s own rate (11.3) 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.
Bee Cave and its neighbors
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Texas towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bee Cave | C | 1.6 | 23.7 |
| Dalhart | B | 1.9 | 7.7 |
| Richland Hills | C− | 3.0 | 24.4 |
| Los Fresnos | D | 7.6 | 14.9 |
| Cuero | D | 8.6 | 14.2 |
| Kirby | D | 8.1 | 14.2 |
The five graded Texas towns closest to Bee Cave’s population (8,464), by grade.
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 Bee Cave. 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 Bee Cave’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (8,356 in 2025); our figure for Bee Cave is 8,464 (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 Bee Cave
Is Bee Cave, TX safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Bee Cave reports more crime per resident than 72% of U.S. towns, a C Safety Grade and #321 of 471 in Texas. Its police reported 1.6 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 Bee Cave?
1.6 violent and 23.7 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Texas reports 4.3 and 23.6; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Is crime going up or down in Bee Cave?
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings.
Is Bee Cave safer than Lakeway?
Lakeway reports less crime per resident than Bee Cave: Lakeway grades B+ for safety and Bee Cave C. Lakeway’s police reported 0.7 violent and 10.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Bee Cave?
Bee Cave’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Bee Cave”. 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.