Top 20 Most Dangerous Cities in Texas Includes 5 In East Texas

How do Nash and New Boston end up on this list? The 20 Most Dangerous Cities in Texas?

Each year, the FBI and the Texas Greater State Department of Public Safety publish crime statistics for every city and county in the state. If you combine those statistics with population figures, you can get rudimentary figures on the number of crimes per population in a given area. If you reduce those fractions to numbers that you can understand, then you will get the figures below. These are just statistics and are in no way an accusation for or against a particular place to live in the state.

20: Herford, TX – 14,500 residents

• Violent crime – 8.0 per 1000 people
• Property crimes: 19.2 per 1,000 people
• Poverty rate – 5.8

# 19: Odessa, TX – Population 126,000

• Violent crime – 8.0 per 1000 people
• Property crimes: 25.04 per 1000 people
• Poverty rate – 1.9

# 18: Lufkin, TX – Population 35,000

• Violent crime: 8.1 per 1000 people
• Property crimes: 22.04 per 1,000 people
• Poverty rate – 4.6

# 17: San Benito, TX – Population 24,000

• Violent crime: 8.1 per 1000 people
• Property crimes: 27.8 per 1,000 people
• Poverty rate – 9.0

# 16: Amarillo, TX – Population 200,000

• Violent crime: 8.3 per 1,000 people
• Property crimes: 36.7 per 1,000 people
• Poverty rate – 1.3

# 15: Corpus Christi, TX – 329,000 residents

• Violent crime: 8.4 per 1,000 people
• Property crimes: 32.6 per 1,000 people
• Poverty rate – 1.3

# 14: Luling, TX – Population 5,900

• Violent crime: 8.4 per 1,000 people
• Property crimes: 11.3 per 1000 people
• Poverty rate – 24.6

# 13: Dallas, TX – Population 1,300,000

• Violent crime: 8.4 per 1,000 people
• Property crimes: 34.4 per 1,000 people
• Poverty rate – 0.6

# 12: Paris, TX – Population 24,800

• Violent crime: 9.9 per 1,000 people
• Property crimes: 28.5 per 1,000 people
• Poverty rate – 6.4

# eleven: New Boston, TX – Population 4,500

• Violent crime: 10.2 per 1,000 people
• Property crimes: 23.5 per 1,000 people
• Poverty rate – 10.7

# 10: Humble, TX – Population 15,900

• Violent crime: 10.2 per 1,000 people
• Property crimes: 83.5 per 1,000 people
• Poverty rate – 16.5

# 9: Donna, TX – Population 16,400

• Violent crime: 10.4 per 1,000 people
• Property crimes: 33.2 per 1,000 people
• Poverty rate – 9.2

# 8: Bellmead, TX – Population 10,800

• Violent crime: 10.5 per 1,000 people
• Property crimes: 51.5 per 1,000 people
• Poverty rate – 8.3

# 7: Lubbock, TX – Population 262,000

• Violent crime: 10.8 per 1,000 people
• Property crimes: 41.08 per 1,000 people
• Poverty rate – 1.8

# 6: Beaumont, TX – Population 116,700

• Violent crime: 12.2 per 1,000 people
• Property crimes: 33.08 per 1,000 people
• Poverty rate – 2.3

# 5: Nash, TX – Population 3,900

• Violent crime: 12.4 per 1,000 people
• Property crimes: 14.9 per 1,000 people
• Poverty rate – 9.4

# 4: Houston, TX – 2,346,000 residents

• Violent crime: 12.5 per 1,000 people
• Property crimes: 41.7 per 1000 people
• Poverty rate – 0.5

# 3: Balcones Heights, TX – 3,300 residents

• Violent crime – 14.8 per 1000 people
• Property crimes: 60.3 per 1,000 people
• Poverty rate – 16.7

# 2: South Padre Island, TX – 2,700 residents

• Violent crime: 15.5 per 1,000 people
• Property crimes: 134.9 per 1,000 people
• Poverty rate – 25.5

# 1: Palmview, TX – Population 5,800

• Violent crime: 18.6 per 1,000 people
• Property crimes: 47.5 per 1,000 people
• Poverty rate – 30.8

This list was originally compiled and can still be viewed at 247wallst.com, they included poverty rates and median income in their calculations for the top 20 you see here.

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