CrimeMetric

Crime in Jacksonville, Texas

Major crime in Jacksonville is 44% below the U.S. rate per resident: 39% lower for persons crimes and 45% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.5% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
56
44% below the U.S. rate
50% below the Texas rate
down 9.5% in a year
Persons crimes
61
39% below the U.S. rate
39% below the Texas rate
down 5.7% in a year
Property crimes
55
45% below the U.S. rate
52% below the Texas rate
down 10.4% in a year
Social disorder
102
about the U.S. rate
about the Texas rate
down 8.1% 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 stands out most, at 2.3 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Jacksonville 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 Jacksonville

The middle half of Jacksonville residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 29 and 59; the typical (median) resident's is 51.

Map of Jacksonville, 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.
  • 0–5041.1%
  • 50–10051.4%
  • 100–2007.5%
  • 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.

When it happens

Highest in the daytime

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm59
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am55
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm59
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am47
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 9.5% in a year; across Texas it fell 9.2%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-9.5%TX -9.2%-9.8%TX -8.6%
Persons crimes-5.7%TX -8.9%+2.5%TX +2.5%
Property crimes-10.4%TX -9.3%-12.8%TX -10.7%
Social disorder-8.1%TX -7.7%-6.1%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

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

1,359 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Jacksonville; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Artesia, CA15,739125
Lebanon, NH15,71199
Jacksonville, TX15,71656
Griffith, IN15,71151
Urbana, MD15,68936
Erlanger, KY15,70926

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

Nearby places

Jacksonville has a higher major-crime index than 3 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Rusk (13 mi), is 19% below Jacksonville's rate.

Henderson30 mi135
Palestine26 mi108
Tyler25 mi107
Kilgore38 mi106
Athens38 mi77
Jacksonville56
Lindale39 mi49
Rusk13 mi45
Whitehouse18 mi29

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

Questions about crime in Jacksonville

What are the most common crimes in Jacksonville?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 49 a year), shoplifting (about 38 a year) and aggravated assault (about 20 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 2.3 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. Jacksonville's figures add up its 11 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Jacksonville 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: 15,716. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100