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B+
Safety in Wolfforth · FBI data, 2023–2025

Less property crime is recorded per resident in Wolfforth than in 84% of U.S. towns

The rate the grade counts held about level from 2023 to 2025. Typical years here bring 1.8 violent crimes plus 4.3 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, against 4.3 plus 23.6 in the rest of Texas. Weighing it all, Wolfforth earns B+ for safety (#82 of 471 graded towns in Texas), with less crime per resident than 70% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported over 2023 to 2025.

Violent crime
1.8
per 1,000 a year · Well below rest of TX (4.3)
U.S. (FBI national estimate) 3.6
Property crime
4.3
per 1,000 a year · Well below rest of TX (23.6)
U.S. (FBI national estimate) 17.6
Crimes reported
144
43 violent · 101 property
2023–2025
Trend
→ Steady
2023 to 2025
within ordinary swings

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 · In brief

What stands out about safety in Wolfforth

Among Texas towns, higher

Texas’ cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Wolfforth’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 83% of the 471 Texas towns we grade, against 70% nationally. Safety Grade ↓

Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.

Safety Grade

What’s behind Wolfforth’s grade

Where Wolfforth sits
B− Violent 1.8A− Property 4.3
All U.S. towns we grade (7,426)Less crime than 70%
More reported crimeLess reported crime
Texas towns we grade (471)Less crime than 83% · #82 of 471
Places of 5,000–25,000 people (3,282)Less crime than 69%
A fairly firm grade. Built on 144 reported crimes over three years. Ordinary swings could put Wolfforth anywhere from B to A−.

How TownRatings grades safety →

Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Property crime holds Wolfforth’s grade up; violent crime pulls it down. Its violent rate (1.8) is below the FBI’s national estimate (3.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.

Violent crime

Violent crime, by year and by type

Wolfforth’s police reported 43 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.8 per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.3 in the rest of Texas and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.

1,000 neighbors · one year

Crime in Wolfforth per 1,000 residents

Property crime (4.1)Violent crime (1.4)Everyone else

Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Wolfforth1.4
Rest of TX3.8
U.S. (FBI)3.3

Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Wolfforth4.1
Rest of TX20.6
U.S. (FBI)15.5

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.

Trend

Reported crime is steady

Show as a table
YearWolfforth propertyRest of Texas propertyWolfforth violentRest of Texas violent
20224.927.30.95.1
20234.226.31.54.7
20244.423.92.54.4
20254.120.61.43.8

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.

What gets reported

48 crimes reported in 2025

2025 offenses reported

Larceny / theft25
Burglary6
Vehicle theft5
Aggravated assault10
Robbery1
Rape1
Homicide0
Arson0
12
violent crimes
36
property crimes

Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.

12 violent and 36 property, as reported to the FBI by Wolfforth’s police.

On the roads

Five people died in crashes on Wolfforth’s roads in 2019–2023

Wolfforth had 5 fatal crashes in five years, in which five people died; 2 were pedestrians.

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 Wolfforth’s size would see about 2 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Wolfforth’s own rate (14.9) is context, not a ranking.

5
people died in crashes, 2019–2023
2
pedestrians among them
0
cyclists among them
14.9
per 100,000 a year · Texas towns of 5,000–25,000: 7.3

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.

Next door

Wolfforth and its neighbors

Wolfforth
A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty
WolfforthB+1.84.3

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

Texas towns of a similar size

TownGradeViolentProperty
WolfforthB+1.84.3
GrahamB1.48.5
Highland ParkC0.724.1
BrownfieldC3.812.4
WhartonC−3.519.4
Los FresnosD7.614.9

The five graded Texas towns closest to Wolfforth’s population (8,746), by grade.

How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.

How to read these numbers

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 Wolfforth. 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 Wolfforth’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
  • Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (8,720 in 2025); our figure for Wolfforth is 8,746 (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 Wolfforth

Is Wolfforth, TX safe?

On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Wolfforth reports less crime per resident than 70% of U.S. towns, a B+ Safety Grade and #82 of 471 in Texas. Its police reported 1.8 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 Wolfforth?

1.8 violent and 4.3 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 Wolfforth?

Wolfforth’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Wolfforth”. 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.