Crime in DeSoto, Texas
Major crime in DeSoto is 23% below the U.S. rate per resident: 11% lower for persons crimes and 26% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 19.5% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
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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Motor vehicle theft stands out most, at 1.6 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in DeSoto for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across DeSoto
The middle half of DeSoto residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 35 and 98; the typical (median) resident's is 51. The citywide figure (77) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5047.5%
- 50–10032.9%
- 100–20015.2%
- 200–4004.2%
- 400+0.2%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 19.5% in a year; across Texas it fell 9.2%
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.
DeSoto against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
340 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than DeSoto; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
DeSoto has a higher major-crime index than 3 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Glenn Heights (3 mi), is 37% below DeSoto's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in DeSoto
What are the most common crimes in DeSoto?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 235 a year), motor vehicle theft (about 143 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 140 a year). Compared with the U.S., motor vehicle theft stands out most: 1.6 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. DeSoto's figures add up its 30 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- DeSoto's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 51.8% 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: 56,779. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in DeSoto, Texas." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/tx/desoto
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