Photo: Larry D. Moore · CC BY 4.0Reported crime per resident in Cedar Park fell 19% from 2023 to 2025
Overall, Cedar Park grades B− for safety (#155 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.
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 Cedar Park
1 of the 2 graded towns next door reports less crime
Of the 3 Texas towns on Cedar Park’s borders, 2 have a Safety Grade: Leander (B+), Austin (D). Brushy Creek is an unincorporated community (a census-designated place) with no police department of its own. Neighbors ↓
Among Texas towns, higher
Texas’ cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Cedar Park’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 67% of the 471 Texas towns we grade, against 54% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
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 Cedar Park’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Violent crime holds Cedar Park’s grade up; property crime pulls it down. Its property rate (13.0) 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.
Violent crime, by year and by type
Cedar Park’s police reported 235 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.
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| Year | Cedar Park | Rest of Texas | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.1 | 5.1 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 1.2 | 4.7 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.0 | 4.5 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.9 | 3.8 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
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.
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| Year | Cedar Park property | Rest of Texas property | Cedar Park violent | Rest of Texas violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 13.2 | 27.4 | 1.1 | 5.1 |
| 2023 | 14.9 | 26.3 | 1.2 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 12.0 | 23.9 | 1.0 | 4.5 |
| 2025 | 12.1 | 20.6 | 0.9 | 3.8 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
For every 1,000 residents, about 12 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.
1,021 crimes reported in 2025
69 violent and 952 property, as reported to the FBI by Cedar Park’s police.
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
14 people died in crashes on Cedar Park’s roads in 2019–2023
Cedar Park had 14 fatal crashes in five years, in which 14 people died; 1 was a pedestrian and 2 were cyclists.
That is 3.6 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, below the median for Texas towns of 25,000–100,000 people (6.1, 88 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.
Cedar Park and its neighbors
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar Park | B− | 1.0 | 13.0 |
| Austin | D | 4.6 | 32.0 |
| Leander | B+ | 0.6 | 7.6 |
| Brushy Creek | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Brushy Creek is an unincorporated community (a census-designated place) with no police department of its own.
Texas towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar Park | B− | 1.0 | 13.0 |
| Flower Mound | A− | 0.6 | 6.1 |
| Missouri City | B | 1.5 | 9.7 |
| Pharr | C+ | 2.3 | 12.3 |
| San Marcos | C− | 4.1 | 21.5 |
| Longview | C− | 3.7 | 23.2 |
The five graded Texas towns closest to Cedar Park’s population (79,032), 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 Cedar Park. A citywide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of the city to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Cedar Park’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (78,469 in 2025); our figure for Cedar Park is 79,032 (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 Cedar Park
Is Cedar Park, TX safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Cedar Park reports less crime per resident than 54% of U.S. towns, a B− Safety Grade and #155 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 Cedar Park?
1.0 violent and 13.0 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 crime going up or down in Cedar Park?
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings.
How many homicides were there in Cedar Park in 2025?
Cedar Park’s police reported 1 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 1.3 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Is Cedar Park safer than Austin?
Austin reports more crime per resident than Cedar Park: Austin grades D for safety and Cedar Park B−. Austin’s police reported 4.6 violent and 32.0 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Cedar Park?
Cedar Park’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Cedar Park”. 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.