Crime in Friendswood, Texas
Major crime in Friendswood is 68% below the U.S. rate per resident: 77% lower for persons crimes and 66% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 6.1% 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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Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 18% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Friendswood 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 Friendswood
The middle half of Friendswood residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 15 and 45; the typical (median) resident's is 21. The citywide figure (32) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5078.5%
- 50–10020.3%
- 100–2001.2%
- 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.
Highest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 6.1% 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.
Friendswood against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
899 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Friendswood; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Friendswood has a lower major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Webster (5 mi), is 8.1 times Friendswood's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Friendswood
What are the most common crimes in Friendswood?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 84 a year), theft from vehicle (about 44 a year) and shoplifting (about 26 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 18% 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. Friendswood's figures add up its 23 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Friendswood has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 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: 39,604. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Friendswood, Texas." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/tx/friendswood
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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