CrimeMetric

Crime in Cotulla, Texas

Major crime in Cotulla is 78% below the U.S. rate per resident: 60% lower for persons crimes and 82% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.5% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
22
78% below the U.S. rate
81% below the Texas rate
down 8.5% in a year
Persons crimes
40
60% below the U.S. rate
60% below the Texas rate
down 5.3% in a year
Property crimes
18
82% below the U.S. rate
85% below the Texas rate
down 10.0% in a year
Social disorder
31
69% below the U.S. rate
71% below the Texas rate
down 6.1% 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

Every crime type in Cotulla is near or below the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Cotulla 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 Cotulla

Cotulla is made up of 3 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 25; the middle half of residents live where it is between 15 and 25.

Map of Cotulla, 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.
  • 0–50100.0%
  • 50–1000.0%
  • 100–2000.0%
  • 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 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 6pm21
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am22
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm20
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am25
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 8.5% in a year; across Texas it fell 9.2%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-8.5%TX -9.2%-14.6%TX -8.6%
Persons crimes-5.3%TX -8.9%-4.7%TX +2.5%
Property crimes-10.0%TX -9.3%-19.6%TX -10.7%
Social disorder-6.1%TX -7.7%-10.6%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

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

1,664 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Cotulla; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:

Beaufort, NC4,519113
Verona, VA4,50655
Avalon, PA4,51854
Jessup, PA4,50336
Cotulla, TX4,51322

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

Nearby places

Cotulla has a lower major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Dilley (19 mi), is 2.4 times Cotulla's rate.

Uvalde64 mi99
Pleasanton58 mi85
Jourdanton53 mi76
Devine54 mi73
Dilley19 mi52
Pearsall34 mi37
Cotulla22

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

Questions about crime in Cotulla

What are the most common crimes in Cotulla?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 4 a year), aggravated assault (about 4 a year) and burglary (about 2 a year). Compared with the U.S., murder stands out most: 15% below 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. Cotulla's figures add up its 3 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Cotulla 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: 4,513. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100