CrimeMetric

Crime in Dickinson, Texas

Major crime in Dickinson is 37% below the U.S. rate per resident: 54% lower for persons crimes and 33% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.3% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
63
37% below the U.S. rate
44% below the Texas rate
down 9.3% in a year
Persons crimes
47
54% below the U.S. rate
54% below the Texas rate
down 6.3% in a year
Property crimes
67
33% below the U.S. rate
42% below the Texas rate
down 9.8% in a year
Social disorder
87
13% below the U.S. rate
18% below the Texas rate
down 5.3% 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

Rape / sexual assault and simple assault stand out most, at about 19% above the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Dickinson 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 Dickinson

The middle half of Dickinson residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 29 and 64; the typical (median) resident's is 36. The citywide figure (63) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Dickinson, 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.
  • 0–5066.8%
  • 50–10013.4%
  • 100–20016.0%
  • 200–4003.8%
  • 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 6pm56
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am71
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm62
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am67
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 9.3% in a year; across Texas it fell 9.2%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-9.3%TX -9.2%-12.8%TX -8.6%
Persons crimes-6.3%TX -8.9%-0.8%TX +2.5%
Property crimes-9.8%TX -9.3%-14.6%TX -10.7%
Social disorder-5.3%TX -7.7%-4.0%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

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

1,238 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Dickinson; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Carrboro, NC20,692130
Dickinson, TX20,73463
Heber, UT20,74455

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

Nearby places

Dickinson has a higher major-crime index than 2 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, League City (3 mi), is 13% below Dickinson's rate.

Webster6 mi262
La Marque7 mi96
Bacliff5 mi95
San Leon7 mi76
Dickinson63
Santa Fe6 mi40

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

Questions about crime in Dickinson

What are the most common crimes in Dickinson?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 70 a year), shoplifting (about 42 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 35 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 19% above 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. Dickinson's figures add up its 14 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Dickinson has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 8.1% 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: 20,734. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100