Photo: Lakeviews · CC BY-SA 4.0On property crime, Little Elm has a lower rate per resident than four in five U.S. towns
Across all the graded crimes, Little Elm lands on B+ (#67 of 471 graded towns in Texas): less crime per resident than 73% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025. The yearly rates were 1.6 violent crimes and 4.2 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 4.3 and 23.6 in the rest of Texas. The crimes the grade counts fell 35% per resident from 2023 to 2025. Each of the 4 towns on its borders with figures records more crime per resident.
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 Little Elm
Little Elm reports less crime than every graded town next door
Of the 7 Texas towns on Little Elm’s borders, 4 have a Safety Grade: Prosper (B+), Frisco (B), The Colony (C+), Aubrey (C). Providence Village and Oak Point have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025. Savannah is an unincorporated community (a census-designated place) with no police department of its own. Neighbors ↓
Among Texas towns, higher
Texas’ cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Little Elm’s 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 ↓
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 Little Elm’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 lower than in most U.S. towns; property crime is the stronger of the two.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Little Elm property | Rest of Texas property | Little Elm violent | Rest of Texas violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 4.8 | 27.4 | 1.6 | 5.1 |
| 2023 | 5.2 | 26.4 | 2.1 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 4.2 | 24.0 | 1.3 | 4.5 |
| 2025 | 3.3 | 20.6 | 1.4 | 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 | Little Elm | Rest of Texas | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.6 | 5.1 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 2.1 | 4.7 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.3 | 4.5 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.4 | 3.8 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Little Elm’s police reported 296 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.6 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 Little Elm 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.
307 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.
89 violent and 218 property, as reported to the FBI by Little Elm’s police.
11 people died in crashes on Little Elm’s roads in 2019–2023
Little Elm had 11 fatal crashes in five years, in which 11 people died; 3 were pedestrians.
That is 4.0 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, below 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.
Little Elm and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little Elm | B+ | 1.6 | 4.2 |
| The Colony | C+ | 1.7 | 17.1 |
| Providence Village | — | — | — |
| Frisco | B | 0.9 | 10.4 |
| Savannah | — | — | — |
| Oak Point | — | — | — |
| Aubrey | C | 3.1 | 15.4 |
| Prosper | B+ | 0.5 | 9.2 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Providence Village and Oak Point have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025. Savannah is an unincorporated community (a census-designated place) with no police department of its own.
Texas towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little Elm | B+ | 1.6 | 4.2 |
| Fulshear | A | 0.4 | 3.3 |
| Wylie | B+ | 0.7 | 7.3 |
| Celina | B+ | 0.8 | 8.2 |
| Euless | C | 1.8 | 19.8 |
| Texas City | C− | 3.2 | 19.3 |
The five graded Texas towns closest to Little Elm’s population (62,727), 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 Little Elm. A citywide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of the city to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Little Elm’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (65,337 in 2025); our figure for Little Elm is 62,727 (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 Little Elm
Is Little Elm, TX safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Little Elm reports less crime per resident than 73% of U.S. towns, a B+ Safety Grade and #67 of 471 in Texas. Its police reported 1.6 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 Little Elm?
1.6 violent and 4.2 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 Little Elm in 2025?
Little Elm’s police reported 2 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 3.1 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Is Little Elm safer than The Colony?
The Colony reports more crime per resident than Little Elm: The Colony grades C+ for safety and Little Elm B+. The Colony’s police reported 1.7 violent and 17.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Little Elm?
Little Elm’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Little Elm”. 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.