Per resident, Sansom Park records more violent crime than 87% of U.S. towns
Measured on crimes Sansom Park’s police reported between 2023 and 2025, it earns a Safety Grade of C−: #388 of 471 graded towns in Texas. Annual rates stand at 4.8 violent crimes and 19.1 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 Sansom Park
Sansom Park reports less crime than every graded town next door
Of the 1 Texas towns on Sansom Park’s borders, 1 have a Safety Grade: Lake Worth (D−). Neighbors ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Sansom Park’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 higher than in most U.S. towns; property crime is the closer of the two to typical.
Crime in Sansom Park 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 4 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 | Sansom Park | Rest of Texas | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 6.6 | 5.1 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 4.9 | 4.7 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 5.3 | 4.4 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 4.1 | 3.8 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Sansom Park’s police reported 76 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 4.8 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 | Sansom Park property | Rest of Texas property | Sansom Park violent | Rest of Texas violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 21.6 | 27.3 | 6.6 | 5.1 |
| 2023 | 22.0 | 26.3 | 4.9 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 18.4 | 23.9 | 5.3 | 4.4 |
| 2025 | 16.9 | 20.6 | 4.1 | 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.
113 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.
22 violent and 91 property, as reported to the FBI by Sansom Park’s police.
One person died in crashes on Sansom Park’s roads in 2019–2023
Sansom Park had 1 fatal crash in five years, in which one person 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 Sansom Park’s size would see about 2 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Sansom Park’s own rate (3.7) 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.
Sansom Park and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sansom Park | C− | 4.8 | 19.1 |
| Lake Worth | D− | 4.9 | 79.2 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Texas towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sansom Park | C− | 4.8 | 19.1 |
| Cameron | B | 1.6 | 9.4 |
| Atlanta | B− | 2.4 | 8.5 |
| Giddings | C+ | 2.6 | 11.2 |
| Waller | C | 3.1 | 17.6 |
| Livingston | D | 5.0 | 37.9 |
The five graded Texas towns closest to Sansom Park’s population (5,419), 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 Sansom Park. 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 Sansom Park’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (5,391 in 2025); our figure for Sansom Park is 5,419 (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 Sansom Park
Is Sansom Park, TX safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Sansom Park reports more crime per resident than 82% of U.S. towns, a C− Safety Grade and #388 of 471 in Texas. Its police reported 4.8 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 Sansom Park?
4.8 violent and 19.1 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 Sansom Park safer than Lake Worth?
Lake Worth reports more crime per resident than Sansom Park: Lake Worth grades D− for safety and Sansom Park C−. Lake Worth’s police reported 4.9 violent and 79.2 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Sansom Park?
Sansom Park’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Sansom Park Village”. 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.