Crime rates for Yoakum, TX

Yoakum has an overall crime rate of 29 per 1,000 residents, making the crime rate here near the average for all cities and towns of all sizes in America. According to our analysis of FBI crime data, your chance of becoming a victim of crime in Yoakum is 1 in 34. How does Yoakum fare compared to other communities in Texas of all population sizes? Yoakum's crime rate is lower than approximately 50% of Texas communities.

How does the crime rate in Yoakum compare to similar sized city across America? When NeighborhoodScout compared Yoakum with other communities its size, we found that the crime rate was near the average for all other communities of similar size. So, whether Yoakum's crime rate is high or low compared to all places in the US, when we control for population size and compare it to places that are similar in size, it is near the middle of the pack in crime rate – not much more or less dangerous, and about what we would expect from the statistics.

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 Yoakum 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 Yoakum.

For Yoakum, NeighborhoodScout found that the violent crime rate is well below the national average for all communities of all population sizes. Violent crimes such as assault, rape, murder and armed robbery happen less often in Yoakum than in most of America. One's chance of becoming a victim of a violent crime here is one in 2839, which is a violent crime rate of 0 per one thousand inhabitants.

NeighborhoodScout's analysis also reveals that Yoakum's rate for property crime is 29 per one thousand population. This makes Yoakum a place where there is an above average chance of becoming a victim of a property crime, when compared to all other communities in America of all population sizes. Property crimes are motor vehicle theft, arson, larceny, and burglary. Your chance of becoming a victim of any of these crimes in Yoakum is one in 34.