CrimeMetric

Crime in Edinburg, Texas

Major crime in Edinburg is 20% below the U.S. rate per resident: 40% lower for persons crimes and 15% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 17.2% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
80
20% below the U.S. rate
28% below the Texas rate
down 17.2% in a year
Persons crimes
61
40% below the U.S. rate
40% below the Texas rate
down 14.9% in a year
Property crimes
85
15% below the U.S. rate
26% below the Texas rate
down 17.5% in a year
Social disorder
130
30% above the U.S. rate
22% above the Texas rate
down 18.9% 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 and rape / sexual assault stand out most, at about 1.9 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Edinburg 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 Edinburg

The middle half of Edinburg residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 41 and 91; the typical (median) resident's is 54. The citywide figure (80) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Edinburg, 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.
  • 0–5040.5%
  • 50–10037.7%
  • 100–20016.5%
  • 200–4002.2%
  • 400+3.1%

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 weekdays, day and night

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm82
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am81
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm75
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am79
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 17.2% in a year; across Texas it fell 9.2%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-17.2%TX -9.2%-6.8%TX -8.6%
Persons crimes-14.9%TX -8.9%+6.0%TX +2.5%
Property crimes-17.5%TX -9.3%-8.9%TX -10.7%
Social disorder-18.9%TX -7.7%-1.0%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

Edinburg against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents

193 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Edinburg; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:

Springfield, IL119,329255
Evansville, IN117,698231
Westminster, CO117,525170
Tuscaloosa, AL118,455156
Manchester, NH117,329105
West Jordan, UT117,419100
Edinburg, TX118,55580
Temecula, CA118,34266
Allen, TX119,57841

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

Nearby places

Edinburg 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, Murillo (4 mi), is 22% below Edinburg's rate.

Alamo9 mi200
Elsa11 mi85
McAllen7 mi84
Alton8 mi84
Edinburg80
Pharr9 mi77
San Juan8 mi75
Mission11 mi65
Murillo4 mi63

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

Questions about crime in Edinburg

What are the most common crimes in Edinburg?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 593 a year), shoplifting (about 347 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 235 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 1.9 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. Edinburg's figures add up its 60 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Edinburg's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
  • 66.9% 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: 118,555. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100