CrimeMetric

Crime in Big Lake, Texas

Major crime in Big Lake is 39% below the U.S. rate per resident: 67% lower for persons crimes and 33% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.9% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
61
39% below the U.S. rate
46% below the Texas rate
down 7.9% in a year
Persons crimes
33
67% below the U.S. rate
67% below the Texas rate
down 5.9% in a year
Property crimes
67
33% below the U.S. rate
42% below the Texas rate
down 8.1% in a year
Social disorder
60
40% below the U.S. rate
44% below the Texas rate
down 5.7% in a year

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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Crime by type

Murder stands out most, at 1.9 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Big Lake for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

Neighborhoods in Big Lake

Big Lake is made up of 3 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 61; the middle half of residents live where it is between 33 and 61.

Map of Big Lake, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the key's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5043.8%
  • 50–10035.1%
  • 100–20021.1%
  • 200–4000.0%
  • 400+0.0%

Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.

When it happens

Highest on weekday daytimes

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm81
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am42
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm57
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am46
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.9% in a year; across Texas it fell 9.2%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.9%TX -9.2%-21.7%TX -8.6%
Persons crimes-5.9%TX -8.9%-7.3%TX +2.5%
Property crimes-8.1%TX -9.3%-23.3%TX -10.7%
Social disorder-5.7%TX -7.7%-13.9%TX -2.0%

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.

Similar-size places

Big Lake against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents

830 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Big Lake; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:

Pojoaque, NM2,879114
Havana, IL2,883111
Big Lake, TX2,88261
Marion, AL2,87944

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Big Lake 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, Ozona (37 mi), is 31% below Big Lake's rate.

Big Spring72 mi181
San Angelo61 mi156
Midland69 mi99
Odessa71 mi77
Big Lake61
Ozona37 mi42
Crane55 mi36
Sonora65 mi17

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Big Lake

What are the most common crimes in Big Lake?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 20 a year), burglary (about 3 a year) and shoplifting (about 2 a year). Compared with the U.S., murder stands out most: 1.9 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. Big Lake's figures add up its 3 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Big Lake has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 0.0% 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: 2,882. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Big Lake, Texas." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/tx/big-lake

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100