CrimeMetric

Crime in Brenham, Texas

Major crime in Brenham is 18% above the U.S. rate per resident: 19% higher for persons crimes and 17% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.2% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
118
18% above the U.S. rate
about the Texas rate
down 7.2% in a year
Persons crimes
119
19% above the U.S. rate
18% above the Texas rate
down 4.5% in a year
Property crimes
117
17% above the U.S. rate
about the Texas rate
down 7.8% in a year
Social disorder
168
1.7 times the U.S. rate
1.6 times 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

Other larceny stands out most, at 2.6 times the U.S. rate

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

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across Brenham

The middle half of Brenham residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 89 and 132; the typical (median) resident's is 113.

Map of Brenham, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–500.0%
  • 50–10045.0%
  • 100–20052.4%
  • 200–4002.5%
  • 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 6pm136
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am101
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm118
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am99
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.2% in a year; across Texas it fell 9.2%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.2%TX -9.2%-5.4%TX -8.6%
Persons crimes-4.5%TX -8.9%+8.5%TX +2.5%
Property crimes-7.8%TX -9.3%-8.6%TX -10.7%
Social disorder-5.7%TX -7.7%+1.5%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

Brenham against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents

483 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Brenham; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Brenham, TX18,349118
Bay City, TX18,373108
Coalinga, CA18,32862
Colonia, NJ18,31345
Verona, WI18,39022

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

Nearby places

Brenham has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Bellville (16 mi), is 49% below Brenham's rate.

Brenham118
Navasota24 mi111
Hempstead19 mi70
Bellville16 mi60
Columbus32 mi57
Sealy27 mi52
Giddings32 mi45
Caldwell32 mi39

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

Questions about crime in Brenham

What are the most common crimes in Brenham?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 236 a year), aggravated assault (about 51 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 27 a year). Compared with the U.S., other larceny 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. Brenham's figures add up its 12 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Brenham 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: 18,349. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Brenham, Texas." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/tx/brenham

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100