Photo: GreenvilleAvenue75206 · CC BY-SA 4.0On property crime, Farmers Branch has a higher rate per resident than 86% of U.S. towns
Among its 3 neighbors with figures, only one records less crime per resident. Farmers Branch’s Safety Grade, C− (#358 of 471 graded towns in Texas), rests on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025: more crime per resident than 77% of U.S. towns. Recorded violent crimes ran at 1.8 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 25.8, against 4.3 and 23.5 in the rest of Texas. The crimes the grade counts fell 37% per resident from 2023 to 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 Farmers Branch
1 of the 3 graded towns next door reports less crime
Of the 3 Texas towns on Farmers Branch’s borders, 3 have a Safety Grade: Carrollton (B−), Dallas (D), Addison (D−). Neighbors ↓
A job center
Farmers Branch has 78,397 jobs based in town for 38,320 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 Farmers Branch’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; violent crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its violent rate (1.8) is below the FBI’s national estimate (3.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Farmers Branch property | Rest of Texas property | Farmers Branch violent | Rest of Texas violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 39.8 | 27.3 | 2.5 | 5.1 |
| 2023 | 31.9 | 26.3 | 2.1 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 25.5 | 23.9 | 2.0 | 4.5 |
| 2025 | 20.2 | 20.6 | 1.3 | 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.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Farmers Branch | Rest of Texas | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2.5 | 5.1 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 2.1 | 4.7 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 2.0 | 4.5 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.3 | 3.8 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Farmers Branch’s police reported 201 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.8 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 Farmers Branch 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 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
807 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.
48 violent and 759 property, as reported to the FBI by Farmers Branch’s police.
25 people died in crashes on Farmers Branch’s roads in 2019–2023
Farmers Branch had 23 fatal crashes in five years, in which 25 people died; 6 were pedestrians. Most of these deaths (14 of 25) were on an Interstate passing through, so they say more about through-traffic than about the town’s own streets.
That is 13.6 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, above 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.
Farmers Branch and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Farmers Branch | C− | 1.8 | 25.8 |
| Dallas | D | 6.3 | 34.7 |
| Carrollton | B− | 1.3 | 12.7 |
| Addison | D− | 3.8 | 56.1 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Texas towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Farmers Branch | C− | 1.8 | 25.8 |
| Socorro | B | 2.1 | 7.5 |
| La Porte | B | 1.7 | 9.3 |
| San Juan | C+ | 2.2 | 13.2 |
| Hurst | C | 2.6 | 21.7 |
| Duncanville | C− | 3.1 | 21.9 |
The five graded Texas towns closest to Farmers Branch’s population (38,320), 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 Farmers Branch. 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 Farmers Branch’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (37,609 in 2025); our figure for Farmers Branch is 38,320 (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 Farmers Branch
Is Farmers Branch, TX safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Farmers Branch reports more crime per resident than 77% of U.S. towns, a C− Safety Grade and #358 of 471 in Texas. Its police reported 1.8 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 Farmers Branch?
1.8 violent and 25.8 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Texas reports 4.3 and 23.5; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
How many homicides were there in Farmers Branch in 2025?
Farmers Branch’s police reported 1 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 2.7 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Is Farmers Branch safer than Dallas?
Dallas reports more crime per resident than Farmers Branch: Dallas grades D for safety and Farmers Branch C−. Dallas’s police reported 6.3 violent and 34.7 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Farmers Branch?
Farmers Branch’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Farmers Branch”. 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.