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Safety in Boerne · FBI data, 2023–2025

Boerne sits close to the middle of U.S. towns for reported crime

Overall, Boerne grades B for safety (#132 of 471 graded towns in Texas): close to the middle of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported to the FBI in 2023–2025.

Violent crime
1.0
per 1,000 a year · Well below rest of TX (4.3)
U.S. (FBI national estimate) 3.6
Property crime
11.3
per 1,000 a year · Well below rest of TX (23.6)
U.S. (FBI national estimate) 17.6
Crimes reported
853
69 violent · 784 property
2023–2025
Trend
→ Steady
2023 to 2025
within ordinary swings

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 · In brief

What stands out about safety in Boerne

Among Texas towns, higher

Texas’ cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Boerne’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 72% of the 471 Texas towns we grade, against 58% nationally. Safety Grade ↓

Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.

Safety Grade

What’s behind Boerne’s grade

Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Violent crime holds Boerne’s grade up; property crime pulls it down. Its property rate (11.3) is below the FBI’s national estimate (17.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.

Where Boerne sits
B+ Violent 1.0B− Property 11.3
All U.S. towns we grade (7,426)Less crime than 58%
More reported crimeLess reported crime
Texas towns we grade (471)Less crime than 72% · #132 of 471
Places of 5,000–25,000 people (3,282)Less crime than 57%
A firm grade. Built on 853 reported crimes over three years; ordinary year-to-year swings wouldn’t change the letter.

How TownRatings grades safety →

Violent crime

Violent crime, by year and by type

Boerne’s police reported 69 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.0 per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.3 in the rest of Texas and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.

1,000 neighbors · one year

For every 1,000 residents, about 10 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.

Property crime (9.9)Violent crime (1)Everyone else

Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Boerne1.0
Rest of TX3.8
U.S. (FBI)3.3

Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Boerne9.9
Rest of TX20.6
U.S. (FBI)15.5

Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.

Trend

Reported crime is steady

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.

Show as a table
YearBoerne propertyRest of Texas propertyBoerne violentRest of Texas violent
202215.227.31.15.1
202312.426.30.94.7
202411.823.91.14.5
20259.920.61.03.8

Crimes per 1,000 residents

What gets reported

262 crimes reported in 2025

25 violent and 237 property, as reported to the FBI by Boerne’s police.

2025 offenses reported

Larceny / theft135
Burglary86
Vehicle theft16
Aggravated assault14
Robbery2
Rape8
Homicide1
Arson0
25
violent crimes
237
property crimes

Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.

On the roads

Seven people died in crashes on Boerne’s roads in 2019–2023

Boerne had 7 fatal crashes in five years, in which seven people died; 2 were pedestrians. 3 died in crashes on an Interstate.

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 Boerne’s size would see about 7 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Boerne’s own rate (6.8) is context, not a ranking.

7
people died in crashes, 2019–2023
2
pedestrians among them
0
cyclists among them
6.8
per 100,000 a year · Texas towns of 5,000–25,000: 7.3

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.

Next door

Boerne and its neighbors

How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.

Boerne
A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty
BoerneB1.011.3

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

Texas towns of a similar size

TownGradeViolentProperty
BoerneB1.011.3
BenbrookC1.918.6
KingsvilleC2.517.4
TerrellC3.117.1
MarshallC−4.516.7
AltonD8.39.8

The five graded Texas towns closest to Boerne’s population (24,047), by grade.

How to read these numbers

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 Boerne. 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 Boerne’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
  • Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (24,044 in 2025); our figure for Boerne is 24,047 (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 Boerne

Is Boerne, TX safe?

On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Boerne reports less crime per resident than 58% of U.S. towns, a B Safety Grade and #132 of 471 in Texas. Its police reported 1.0 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 Boerne?

1.0 violent and 11.3 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 Boerne?

Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings.

Who polices Boerne?

Boerne’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Boerne”. 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.