Crime rates for San Antonio, TX

About San Antonio crime rates

With a crime rate of 66 per one thousand residents, San Antonio has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes - from the smallest towns to the very largest cities. One's chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 15. Within Texas, more than 97% of the communities have a lower crime rate than San Antonio.

Importantly, when you compare San Antonio to other communities of similar population, then San Antonio crime rate (violent and property crimes combined) is quite a bit higher than average. Regardless of how San Antonio does relative to all communities in America of all sizes, when NeighborhoodScout compared it to communities of similar population size, its crime rate per thousand residents stands out as higher than most.

The crime data that NeighborhoodScout used for this analysis are the seven offenses from the uniform crime reports, collected by the FBI from 17,000 local law enforcement agencies, and include both violent and property crimes, combined.

Now let us turn to take a look at how San Antonio does for violent crimes specifically, and then how it does for property crimes. This is important because the overall crime rate can be further illuminated by understanding if violent crime or property crimes (or both) are the major contributors to the general rate of crime in San Antonio.

From our analysis, we discovered that violent crime in San Antonio occurs at a rate higher than in most communities of all population sizes in America. The chance that a person will become a victim of a violent crime in San Antonio; such as armed robbery, aggravated assault, rape or murder; is 1 in 190. This equates to a rate of 5 per one thousand inhabitants.

In addition, NeighborhoodScout found that a lot of the crime that takes place in San Antonio is property crime. Property crimes that are tracked for this analysis are burglary, larceny over fifty dollars, motor vehicle theft, and arson. In San Antonio, your chance of becoming a victim of a property crime is one in 17, which is a rate of 60 per one thousand population.

Importantly, we found that San Antonio has one of the highest rates of motor vehicle theft in the nation according to our analysis of FBI crime data. This is compared to communities of all sizes, from the smallest to the largest. In fact, your chance of getting your car stolen if you live in San Antonio is one in 229.