CrimeMetric

Crime in Dumas, Texas

Major crime in Dumas is 36% below the U.S. rate per resident: 52% lower for persons crimes and 32% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.4% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
64
36% below the U.S. rate
42% below the Texas rate
down 7.4% in a year
Persons crimes
48
52% below the U.S. rate
52% below the Texas rate
down 4.9% in a year
Property crimes
68
32% below the U.S. rate
41% below the Texas rate
down 7.8% in a year
Social disorder
104
about the U.S. rate
about the Texas rate
down 6.2% 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

Shoplifting and drugs and alcohol stand out most, at about 46% above the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Dumas 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 Dumas

The middle half of Dumas residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 18 and 72; the typical (median) resident's is 36. The citywide figure (64) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Dumas, 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.
  • 0–5058.8%
  • 50–10025.6%
  • 100–20013.9%
  • 200–4000.0%
  • 400+1.8%

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 weekends

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm62
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am63
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm70
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am71
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.4% in a year; across Texas it fell 9.2%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.4%TX -9.2%-11.5%TX -8.6%
Persons crimes-4.9%TX -8.9%+1.8%TX +2.5%
Property crimes-7.8%TX -9.3%-13.6%TX -10.7%
Social disorder-6.2%TX -7.7%-6.0%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

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

1,213 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Dumas; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Indianola, IA15,023182
Brookside, DE14,979100
Richmond, TX15,00182
La Palma, CA14,99677
Dumas, TX14,99764
Berthoud, CO15,01027

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

Nearby places

Dumas 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, Cactus (12 mi), is 13% below Dumas's rate.

Amarillo48 mi141
Borger35 mi113
Pampa60 mi100
Guymon, OK63 mi70
Dumas64
Cactus12 mi56
Dalhart33 mi46
Canyon63 mi42
Spearman48 mi33

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

Questions about crime in Dumas

What are the most common crimes in Dumas?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 69 a year), other larceny (about 45 a year) and aggravated assault (about 16 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 46% 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. Dumas's figures add up its 12 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Dumas's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
  • 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: 14,997. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100