Photo: Larry D. Moore · CC BY 4.0Prairie View records less property crime per head than two in three U.S. towns
The local count comes to 1.6 violent crimes and 7.2 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 4.3 and 23.6 in the rest of Texas. Add to that, its Safety Grade is B, on crimes Prairie View’s police reported from 2023 to 2025: #109 of 471 graded towns in 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 Prairie View
Prairie View reports less crime than every graded town next door
Of the 1 Texas towns on Prairie View’s borders, 1 have a Safety Grade: Waller (C). Neighbors ↓
Among Texas towns, higher
Texas’ cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Prairie View’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 77% of the 471 Texas towns we grade, against 63% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A college town
Prairie View is home to Prairie View A & M University, with 8,784 students taking classes on campus (federal college data), and 66% of residents are enrolled in college (Census). Students who live in town count as residents, so they are part of the per-resident rate. How to read it ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Prairie View’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.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Prairie View | Rest of Texas | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2.4 | 5.1 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 1.5 | 4.7 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 2.1 | 4.4 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.3 | 3.8 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Prairie View’s police reported 42 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 Prairie View 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 | Prairie View property | Rest of Texas property | Prairie View violent | Rest of Texas violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 11.2 | 27.3 | 2.4 | 5.1 |
| 2023 | 7.7 | 26.3 | 1.5 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 7.1 | 23.9 | 2.1 | 4.4 |
| 2025 | 6.7 | 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.
70 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.
11 violent and 59 property, as reported to the FBI by Prairie View’s police.
Three people died in crashes on Prairie View’s roads in 2019–2023
Prairie View had 3 fatal crashes in five years, in which three people died; 1 was a pedestrian.
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 Prairie View’s size would see about 3 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Prairie View’s own rate (7.1) 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.
Prairie View and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prairie View | B | 1.6 | 7.2 |
| Waller | C | 3.1 | 17.6 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Texas towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prairie View | B | 1.6 | 7.2 |
| Venus | A− | 1.5 | 4.0 |
| Sunnyvale | B | 1.5 | 9.7 |
| Hillsboro | C | 2.1 | 19.0 |
| Decatur | C | 1.7 | 21.3 |
| Aubrey | C | 3.1 | 15.4 |
The five graded Texas towns closest to Prairie View’s population (8,969), 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 Prairie View. 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 Prairie View’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (8,785 in 2025); our figure for Prairie View is 8,969 (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 Prairie View
Is Prairie View, TX safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Prairie View reports less crime per resident than 63% of U.S. towns, a B Safety Grade and #109 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 Prairie View?
1.6 violent and 7.2 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.
Is Prairie View safer than Waller?
Waller reports more crime per resident than Prairie View: Waller grades C for safety and Prairie View B. Waller’s police reported 3.1 violent and 17.6 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Prairie View?
Prairie View’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Prairie View”. 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.