Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 4.0Huntsville records more violent crime per head than 89% of U.S. towns
Each year brought 5.1 violent crimes and 15.2 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (4.3 and 23.6 in the rest of Texas). Overall, it grades C− for safety (#377 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 Huntsville
A college town
Huntsville is home to Sam Houston State University, with 16,613 students taking classes on campus (federal college data), and 21% of residents are enrolled in college (Census). Students who live in town count as residents, so they are part of the per-resident rate. How to read it ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Huntsville’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. Its property rate (15.2) 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.
Crime in Huntsville 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 5 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 | Huntsville | Rest of Texas | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 4.7 | 5.1 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 5.1 | 4.7 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 5.1 | 4.4 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 5.2 | 3.8 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Huntsville’s police reported 761 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.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Huntsville property | Rest of Texas property | Huntsville violent | Rest of Texas violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 18.2 | 27.3 | 4.7 | 5.1 |
| 2023 | 16.6 | 26.3 | 5.1 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 15.3 | 23.9 | 5.1 | 4.4 |
| 2025 | 13.7 | 20.6 | 5.2 | 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.
954 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.
262 violent and 692 property, as reported to the FBI by Huntsville’s police.
22 people died in crashes on Huntsville’s roads in 2019–2023
Huntsville had 19 fatal crashes in five years, in which 22 people died; 4 were pedestrians and 1 was a cyclist. 9 died in crashes on an Interstate.
That is 9.2 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.
Huntsville and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Huntsville | C− | 5.1 | 15.2 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Texas towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Huntsville | C− | 5.1 | 15.2 |
| Midlothian | B | 1.1 | 9.6 |
| Waxahachie | C+ | 2.1 | 13.5 |
| Cedar Hill | C+ | 1.7 | 18.1 |
| Bedford | C+ | 1.9 | 17.4 |
| Grapevine | C | 1.7 | 20.6 |
The five graded Texas towns closest to Huntsville’s population (49,088), 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 Huntsville. 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 Huntsville’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (50,457 in 2025); our figure for Huntsville is 49,088 (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 Huntsville
Is Huntsville, TX safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Huntsville reports more crime per resident than 80% of U.S. towns, a C− Safety Grade and #377 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 Huntsville?
5.1 violent and 15.2 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.
How many homicides were there in Huntsville in 2025?
Huntsville’s police reported 3 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 5.9 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Who polices Huntsville?
Huntsville’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Huntsville”. 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.