Crime in Highlands, Texas
Major crime in Highlands is 1.7 times the U.S. rate per resident: 2.0 times for persons crimes and 1.6 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 13.1% 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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Theft from vehicle stands out most, at 3.0 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Highlands 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
Neighborhoods in Highlands
Highlands is made up of 4 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 140; the middle half of residents live where it is between 140 and 181.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–1000.0%
- 100–20087.9%
- 200–40012.1%
- 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 13.1% 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.
Highlands against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
190 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Highlands; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Highlands has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Channelview (5 mi), is 10% below Highlands's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Highlands
What are the most common crimes in Highlands?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are theft from vehicle (about 48 a year), shoplifting (about 32 a year) and aggravated assault (about 25 a year). Compared with the U.S., theft from vehicle stands out most: 3.0 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. Highlands's figures add up its 4 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Highlands's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 100.0% 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: 5,989. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Highlands, Texas." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/tx/highlands
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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