Crime in Belton, Texas
Major crime in Belton is 23% below the U.S. rate per resident: 64% lower for persons crimes and 14% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.1% 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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Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 3.3 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Belton 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 Belton
The middle half of Belton residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 21 and 95; the typical (median) resident's is 39. The citywide figure (77) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5050.4%
- 50–10033.6%
- 100–2003.4%
- 200–40012.6%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.1% 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.
Belton against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
482 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Belton; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Belton has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Morgan's Point Resort (6 mi), is 63% below Belton's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Belton
What are the most common crimes in Belton?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 120 a year), other larceny (about 106 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 38 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 3.3 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. Belton's figures add up its 13 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Belton's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 13.5% 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: 25,986. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Belton, Texas." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/tx/belton
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Morgan's Point Resort6 mi28
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