Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Crime per resident in Port Aransas runs higher than in 96% of U.S. towns
Violent crime here is higher than in 89% of U.S. towns; property crime, higher than in 98%. What’s more, it grades D− for safety on crimes Port Aransas’ police reported from 2023 to 2025: #457 of 471 graded towns in Texas. The yearly rates were 5.0 violent crimes and 48.8 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 4.3 and 23.5 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 Port Aransas
1 of the 1 graded towns next door reports less crime
Of the 1 Texas towns on Port Aransas’ borders, 1 have a Safety Grade: Corpus Christi (D). Neighbors ↓
A job center
Port Aransas has 2,535 jobs based in town for 3,773 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 Port Aransas’ 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; violent crime is the closer of the two to typical.
Crime in Port Aransas 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 7 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 | Port Aransas | Rest of Texas | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 6.4 | 5.1 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 3.6 | 4.4 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 6.8 | 3.8 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Port Aransas’ police reported 55 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 5.0 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 | Port Aransas property | Rest of Texas property | Port Aransas violent | Rest of Texas violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 55.7 | 27.3 | 6.4 | 5.1 |
| 2023 | 56.5 | 26.3 | 4.6 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 50.3 | 23.9 | 3.6 | 4.4 |
| 2025 | 40.4 | 20.6 | 6.8 | 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.
180 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.
26 violent and 154 property, as reported to the FBI by Port Aransas’ police.
One person died in crashes on Port Aransas’s roads in 2019–2023
Port Aransas 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 Port Aransas’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Port Aransas’s own rate (6.1) 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.
Port Aransas and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Port Aransas | D− | 5.0 | 48.8 |
| Corpus Christi | D | 8.4 | 29.8 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Texas towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Port Aransas | D− | 5.0 | 48.8 |
| Laguna Vista | A− | 0.5 | 6.0 |
| Dilley | B+ | 1.5 | 5.6 |
| Columbus | C+ | 3.1 | 8.5 |
| Eastland | C | 2.9 | 16.4 |
| Shenandoah | D− | 2.9 | 59.4 |
The five graded Texas towns closest to Port Aransas’ population (3,773), 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 Port Aransas. 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 Port Aransas’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (3,813 in 2025); our figure for Port Aransas is 3,773 (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 Port Aransas
Is Port Aransas, TX safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Port Aransas reports more crime per resident than 96% of U.S. towns, a D− Safety Grade and #457 of 471 in Texas. Its police reported 5.0 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 Port Aransas?
5.0 violent and 48.8 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Texas reports 4.3 and 23.5; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Is Port Aransas safer than Corpus Christi?
Corpus Christi reports less crime per resident than Port Aransas: Corpus Christi grades D for safety and Port Aransas D−. Corpus Christi’s police reported 8.4 violent and 29.8 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Port Aransas?
Port Aransas’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Port Aransas”. 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.