Photo: Djmaschek · CC BY-SA 4.0More violent crime is recorded per resident in El Campo than in 89% of U.S. towns
Per resident, the graded crimes were down 38% from 2023 to 2025. Behind the grade sit 5.1 violent crimes and 20.1 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 4.3 and 23.6 in the rest of Texas. That puts it at C− for safety, judged on crimes El Campo’s police reported from 2023 to 2025: #401 of 471 graded towns in Texas.
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 El Campo
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 El Campo’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 higher than in most U.S. towns; property crime is the closer of the two to typical.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | El Campo property | Rest of Texas property | El Campo violent | Rest of Texas violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 39.0 | 27.3 | 6.0 | 5.1 |
| 2023 | 26.0 | 26.3 | 6.4 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 18.0 | 23.9 | 5.1 | 4.4 |
| 2025 | 16.2 | 20.6 | 3.9 | 3.8 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
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.
Crime in El Campo 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 4 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | El Campo | Rest of Texas | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 6.0 | 5.1 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 6.4 | 4.7 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 5.1 | 4.4 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
El Campo’s police reported 185 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 5.1 per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.3 in the rest of Texas and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
243 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.
47 violent and 196 property, as reported to the FBI by El Campo’s police.
Two people died in crashes on El Campo’s roads in 2019–2023
El Campo had 2 fatal crashes in five years, in which two people died; 1 was a pedestrian.
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 El Campo’s size would see about 4 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so El Campo’s own rate (3.3) 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.
El Campo and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Campo | C− | 5.1 | 20.1 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Texas towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Campo | C− | 5.1 | 20.1 |
| Fair Oaks Ranch | A− | 0.2 | 6.6 |
| Fredericksburg | B+ | 0.8 | 6.9 |
| Northlake | B− | 1.4 | 11.4 |
| Lavon | C+ | 2.7 | 13.5 |
| Selma | C | 2.1 | 22.6 |
The five graded Texas towns closest to El Campo’s population (12,142), 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 El Campo. 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 El Campo’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (12,136 in 2025); our figure for El Campo is 12,142 (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 El Campo
Is El Campo, TX safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, El Campo reports more crime per resident than 84% of U.S. towns, a C− Safety Grade and #401 of 471 in Texas. Its police reported 5.1 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 El Campo?
5.1 violent and 20.1 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.
Who polices El Campo?
El Campo’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “El Campo”. 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.