CrimeMetric

Crime in Brownwood, Texas

Major crime in Brownwood is 1.6 times the U.S. rate per resident: 34% higher for persons crimes and 1.6 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.6% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
155
1.6 times the U.S. rate
39% above the Texas rate
down 7.6% in a year
Persons crimes
134
34% above the U.S. rate
34% above the Texas rate
down 4.8% in a year
Property crimes
160
1.6 times the U.S. rate
40% above the Texas rate
down 8.1% in a year
Social disorder
169
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 3.2 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Brownwood 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 Brownwood

The middle half of Brownwood residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 62 and 193; the typical (median) resident's is 124. The citywide figure (155) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Brownwood, 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.
  • 0–5010.1%
  • 50–10018.3%
  • 100–20052.5%
  • 200–40015.7%
  • 400+3.4%

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 Friday and Saturday nights

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm150
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am160
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm140
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am176
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.6% in a year; across Texas it fell 9.2%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.6%TX -9.2%-14.3%TX -8.6%
Persons crimes-4.8%TX -8.9%-0.2%TX +2.5%
Property crimes-8.1%TX -9.3%-16.9%TX -10.7%
Social disorder-5.7%TX -7.7%-6.8%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

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

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

Augusta, ME19,210202
Brownwood, TX19,173155
Seabrook, MD19,118132
Arcata, CA19,142113
Calhoun, GA19,12192
Dover, NJ19,15939
Sylvania, OH19,18239

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

Nearby places

Brownwood 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, Comanche (27 mi), is 38% below Brownwood's rate.

Brownwood155
Eastland49 mi104
Comanche27 mi96
De Leon39 mi59
Brady46 mi49
Cisco48 mi45
Coleman27 mi44
San Saba38 mi36
Dublin47 mi24

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

Questions about crime in Brownwood

What are the most common crimes in Brownwood?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 311 a year), aggravated assault (about 58 a year) and burglary (about 55 a year). Compared with the U.S., other larceny stands out most: 3.2 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. Brownwood's figures add up its 19 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Brownwood 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: 19,173. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100