Property crime per resident is lower in Lake Dallas than in 76% of U.S. towns
Among its 2 neighbors with figures, only one records less crime per resident. Add to that, on crimes reported by Lake Dallas’ police in 2023–2025, it grades B+ for safety: #67 of 471 graded towns in Texas. The local count comes to 1.2 violent crimes and 5.7 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 4.3 and 23.6 in the rest of 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 Lake Dallas
1 of the 2 graded towns next door reports less crime
Of the 3 Texas towns on Lake Dallas’ borders, 2 have a Safety Grade: Corinth (A−), Hickory Creek (B+). Shady Shores has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025. Neighbors ↓
Among Texas towns, higher
Texas’ cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Lake Dallas’ place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 86% of the 471 Texas towns we grade, against 73% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Lake Dallas’ 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 lower than in most U.S. towns; property crime is the stronger of the two.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Lake Dallas | Rest of Texas | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.6 | 5.1 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 1.3 | 4.7 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.3 | 3.8 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Lake Dallas’ police reported 28 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.2 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 Lake Dallas 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.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Lake Dallas property | Rest of Texas property | Lake Dallas violent | Rest of Texas violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 6.8 | 27.3 | 1.6 | 5.1 |
| 2023 | 4.9 | 26.3 | 1.3 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 5.8 | 23.9 | 1.0 | 4.4 |
| 2025 | 6.3 | 20.6 | 1.3 | 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.
60 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.
10 violent and 50 property, as reported to the FBI by Lake Dallas’ police.
One person died in crashes on Lake Dallas’s roads in 2019–2023
Lake Dallas had 1 fatal crash in five years, in which one person died.
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 Lake Dallas’s size would see about 3 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Lake Dallas’s own rate (2.6) 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.
Lake Dallas and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Dallas | B+ | 1.2 | 5.7 |
| Hickory Creek | B+ | 1.0 | 8.4 |
| Corinth | A− | 0.7 | 7.2 |
| Shady Shores | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Shady Shores has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025.
Texas towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Dallas | B+ | 1.2 | 5.7 |
| Perryton | B | 2.8 | 3.2 |
| Seminole | B | 2.1 | 8.0 |
| Sealy | B− | 1.9 | 10.2 |
| Jersey Village | C− | 2.4 | 28.1 |
| Crandall | D | 9.4 | 25.9 |
The five graded Texas towns closest to Lake Dallas’ population (7,852), 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 Lake Dallas. 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 Lake Dallas’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (7,965 in 2025); our figure for Lake Dallas is 7,852 (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 Lake Dallas
Is Lake Dallas, TX safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Lake Dallas reports less crime per resident than 73% of U.S. towns, a B+ Safety Grade and #67 of 471 in Texas. Its police reported 1.2 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 Lake Dallas?
1.2 violent and 5.7 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 Lake Dallas safer than Hickory Creek?
Hickory Creek reports more crime per resident than Lake Dallas: Hickory Creek grades B+ for safety and Lake Dallas B+. Hickory Creek’s police reported 1.0 violent and 8.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Lake Dallas?
Lake Dallas’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Lake Dallas”. 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.