Crime in Balch Springs, Texas
Major crime in Balch Springs is 40% above the U.S. rate per resident: 20% higher for persons crimes and 44% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 16.5% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.
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Motor vehicle theft stands out most, at 2.6 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Balch Springs for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Balch Springs
The middle half of Balch Springs residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 80 and 180; the typical (median) resident's is 119.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10043.5%
- 100–20040.2%
- 200–4009.5%
- 400+6.9%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 16.5% in a year; across Texas it fell 9.2%
Change in expected crimes, with Texas as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Balch Springs against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
153 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Balch Springs; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Balch Springs has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Mesquite (4 mi), is about Balch Springs's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Balch Springs
What are the most common crimes in Balch Springs?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 159 a year), motor vehicle theft (about 107 a year) and shoplifting (about 88 a year). Compared with the U.S., motor vehicle theft stands out most: 2.6 times the U.S. rate per resident.
How we calculated this
Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Balch Springs's figures add up its 12 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Balch Springs has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 100.0% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
- Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
- Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
- Residents: 25,499. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Balch Springs, Texas." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/tx/balch-springs
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100