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Safety in La Villa · FBI data, 2023–2025

Recorded crime per resident in La Villa fell 91% from 2023 to 2025

Property crime is lower than in 54% of U.S. towns; violent crime, lower than in only 32%. Overall, it grades B− for safety (#206 of 471 graded towns in Texas). By contrast, its police logs show 2.6 violent crimes and 10.2 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the rest of Texas the numbers are 4.3 and 23.6.

Violent crime
2.6
per 1,000 a year · Well below rest of TX (4.3)
U.S. (FBI national estimate) 3.6
Property crime
10.2
per 1,000 a year · Well below rest of TX (23.6)
U.S. (FBI national estimate) 17.6
Crimes reported
122
25 violent · 97 property
2023–2025
Trend
▼ Falling
2023 to 2025
beyond ordinary swings

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 · In brief

What stands out about safety in La Villa

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.

Safety Grade

What’s behind La Villa’s grade

Where La Villa sits
C Violent 2.6B− Property 10.2
All U.S. towns we grade (7,426)Less crime than 45%
More reported crimeLess reported crime
Texas towns we grade (471)Less crime than 56% · #206 of 471
Places of 1,000–5,000 people (2,448)Less crime than 35%
A fairly firm grade. Built on 122 reported crimes over three years. Ordinary swings could put La Villa anywhere from C+ to B−.

How TownRatings grades safety →

Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Property crime holds La Villa’s grade up; violent crime pulls it down. Its violent rate (2.6) 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.

Trend

Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025

Show as a table
YearLa Villa propertyRest of Texas propertyLa Villa violentRest of Texas violent
202318.426.35.54.7
202411.123.91.94.4
20251.520.60.63.8

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, 2023–2025, against the rest of Texas.

Violent crime

Violent crime, by year and by type

La Villa’s police reported 25 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 2.6 per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.3 in the rest of Texas and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.

1,000 neighbors · one year

Crime in La Villa per 1,000 residents

Property crime (1.5)Violent crime (0.6)Everyone else

Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

La Villa0.6
Rest of TX3.8
U.S. (FBI)3.3

Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

La Villa1.5
Rest of TX20.6
U.S. (FBI)15.5

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.

What gets reported

7 crimes reported in 2025

2025 offenses reported

Larceny / theft3
Burglary1
Vehicle theft1
Aggravated assault2
Robbery0
Rape0
Homicide0
Arson0
2
violent crimes
5
property crimes

Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.

2 violent and 5 property, as reported to the FBI by La Villa’s police.

On the roads

No one died in a crash on La Villa’s roads in 2019–2023

That is about what is typical for Texas towns of 2,500–5,000 people: at their median rate (5.8 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of La Villa’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so La Villa’s own rate (0.0) is context, not a ranking.

0
people died in crashes, 2019–2023
0
pedestrians among them
0
cyclists among them
0.0
per 100,000 a year · Texas towns of 2,500–5,000: 5.8

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.

Next door

La Villa and its neighbors

La Villa
A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty
La VillaB−2.610.2

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

Texas towns of a similar size

TownGradeViolentProperty
La VillaB−2.610.2
CraneA−1.62.1
CombesB−1.711.1
OnalaskaC4.314.3
West Lake HillsC−0.829.3
KenedyC−2.424.6

The five graded Texas towns closest to La Villa’s population (3,257), by grade.

How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.

How to read these numbers

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 La Villa. 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 La Villa’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
  • Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (3,272 in 2025); our figure for La Villa is 3,257 (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 La Villa

Is La Villa, TX safe?

On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, La Villa reports more crime per resident than 55% of U.S. towns, a B− Safety Grade and #206 of 471 in Texas. Its police reported 2.6 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 La Villa?

2.6 violent and 10.2 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.

Who polices La Villa?

La Villa’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “La Villa”. 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.