Port Arthur-Orange Bridge · Photo: Aren Cambre · CC BY-SA 2.5On property crime, Bridge City has a lower rate per resident than four in five U.S. towns
Overall, Bridge City grades B+ for safety (#67 of 471 graded towns in Texas): less crime per resident than 73% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Police counts work out at 1.4 violent crimes and 5.0 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the rest of Texas they are 4.3 and 23.6.
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 Bridge City
Bridge City reports less crime than every graded town next door
Of the 1 Texas towns on Bridge City’s borders, 1 have a Safety Grade: Orange (C). Neighbors ↓
Among Texas towns, higher
Texas’ cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Bridge City’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 86% of the 471 Texas towns we grade, against 73% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Bridge City’s 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 lower than in most U.S. towns; property crime is the stronger of the two.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Bridge City | Rest of Texas | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.7 | 5.1 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 1.1 | 4.7 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.1 | 4.4 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.9 | 3.8 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Bridge City’s police reported 41 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.4 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 Bridge City 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 2 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 | Bridge City property | Rest of Texas property | Bridge City violent | Rest of Texas violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 7.2 | 27.3 | 0.7 | 5.1 |
| 2023 | 4.6 | 26.3 | 1.1 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 5.7 | 23.9 | 1.1 | 4.4 |
| 2025 | 4.7 | 20.6 | 1.9 | 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.
65 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.
19 violent and 46 property, as reported to the FBI by Bridge City’s police.
10 people died in crashes on Bridge City’s roads in 2019–2023
Bridge City had 10 fatal crashes in five years, in which 10 people died; 1 was a pedestrian and 1 was a cyclist.
That is 20.7 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for Texas towns of 5,000–25,000 people (7.3, 297 towns).
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.
Bridge City and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bridge City | B+ | 1.4 | 5.0 |
| Orange | C | 4.5 | 12.3 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Texas towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bridge City | B+ | 1.4 | 5.0 |
| Vidor | C+ | 2.3 | 14.5 |
| Jacinto City | C | 0.9 | 26.6 |
| Vernon | C | 3.8 | 16.0 |
| Marble Falls | C− | 3.7 | 19.1 |
| Navasota | D | 7.7 | 17.3 |
The five graded Texas towns closest to Bridge City’s population (9,645), 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 Bridge City. 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 Bridge City’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (9,868 in 2025); our figure for Bridge City is 9,645 (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 Bridge City
Is Bridge City, TX safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Bridge City reports less crime per resident than 73% of U.S. towns, a B+ Safety Grade and #67 of 471 in Texas. Its police reported 1.4 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 Bridge City?
1.4 violent and 5.0 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 Bridge City safer than Orange?
Orange reports more crime per resident than Bridge City: Orange grades C for safety and Bridge City B+. Orange’s police reported 4.5 violent and 12.3 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Bridge City?
Bridge City’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Bridge City”. 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.