CrimeMetric

Crime in Denison, Texas

Major crime in Denison is 47% below the U.S. rate per resident: 39% lower for persons crimes and 49% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.3% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
53
47% below the U.S. rate
53% below the Texas rate
down 8.3% in a year
Persons crimes
61
39% below the U.S. rate
39% below the Texas rate
down 13.5% in a year
Property crimes
51
49% below the U.S. rate
55% below the Texas rate
down 6.8% in a year
Social disorder
79
21% below the U.S. rate
26% below the Texas rate
down 15.1% 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

Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 1.7 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Denison 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 Denison

The middle half of Denison residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 36 and 57; the typical (median) resident's is 41. The citywide figure (53) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Denison, 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. Tap one to compare it. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5067.3%
  • 50–10024.4%
  • 100–2008.3%
  • 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 weeknights

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm52
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am56
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm48
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am53
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 8.3% in a year; across Texas it fell 9.2%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-8.3%TX -9.2%-4.9%TX -8.6%
Persons crimes-13.5%TX -8.9%+7.3%TX +2.5%
Property crimes-6.8%TX -9.3%-8.1%TX -10.7%
Social disorder-15.1%TX -7.7%-2.6%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

Denison against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents

688 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Denison; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:

Fairland, MD26,605106
Sanger, CA26,61985
Saginaw, TX26,61660
Denison, TX26,63653
Pelham, AL26,65852
Eastmont, WA26,58933

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

Nearby places

Denison 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, Sherman (8 mi), is 1.7 times Denison's rate.

Durant, OK20 mi159
Sherman8 mi89
Denison53
Bonham24 mi48
Anna27 mi46
Whitesboro21 mi44
Melissa31 mi24

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

Questions about crime in Denison

What are the most common crimes in Denison?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 97 a year), aggravated assault (about 34 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 31 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 1.7 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. Denison's figures add up its 22 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Denison has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 4.8% 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: 26,636. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100