Oyster Creek has more property crime per resident than 66% of U.S. towns
Across all the graded crimes, Oyster Creek lands on C+: close to the middle of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Annual rates stand at 1.6 violent crimes and 15.5 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 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 Oyster Creek
A job center
Oyster Creek has 2,022 jobs based in town for 1,239 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Oyster Creek’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Violent crime holds Oyster Creek’s grade up; property crime pulls it down. Its property rate (15.5) 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.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Oyster Creek | Rest of Texas | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.7 | 5.1 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 2.5 | 4.7 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.6 | 4.4 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.8 | 3.8 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Oyster Creek’s police reported 6 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 Oyster Creek 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 | Oyster Creek property | Rest of Texas property | Oyster Creek violent | Rest of Texas violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 19.2 | 27.3 | 1.7 | 5.1 |
| 2023 | 14.0 | 26.3 | 2.5 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 22.9 | 23.9 | 1.6 | 4.4 |
| 2025 | 9.6 | 20.6 | 0.8 | 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.
13 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.
1 violent and 12 property, as reported to the FBI by Oyster Creek’s police.
One person died in crashes on Oyster Creek’s roads in 2019–2023
Oyster Creek had 1 fatal crash in five years, in which one person died.
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 Oyster Creek’s size would see about 0 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Oyster Creek’s own rate (15.5) 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.
Oyster Creek and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oyster Creek | C+ | 1.6 | 15.5 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Texas towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oyster Creek | C+ | 1.6 | 15.5 |
| Florence | A | 0.3 | 3.3 |
| Roscoe | A | 0.8 | 1.4 |
| Granger | B+ | 1.1 | 7.2 |
| Tye | B | 1.9 | 6.5 |
| La Grulla | C+ | 4.9 | 6.0 |
The five graded Texas towns closest to Oyster Creek’s population (1,239), 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 Oyster Creek. 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 Oyster Creek’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (1,249 in 2025); our figure for Oyster Creek is 1,239 (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 Oyster Creek
Is Oyster Creek, TX safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Oyster Creek reports more crime per resident than 58% of U.S. towns, a C+ Safety Grade. 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 Oyster Creek?
1.6 violent and 15.5 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 Oyster Creek?
Oyster Creek’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Oyster Creek”. 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.