Crime in Lamesa, Texas
Major crime in Lamesa is 12% below the U.S. rate per resident: 44% higher for persons crimes and 24% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.4% 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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Intimidation stands out most, at 2.3 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Lamesa 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 Lamesa
The middle half of Lamesa residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 55 and 125; the typical (median) resident's is 72. The citywide figure (88) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5018.7%
- 50–10046.7%
- 100–20034.5%
- 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.
Highest on Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.4% 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.
Lamesa against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
692 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Lamesa; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Lamesa has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Brownfield (35 mi), is 22% below Lamesa's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Lamesa
What are the most common crimes in Lamesa?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 41 a year), aggravated assault (about 29 a year) and burglary (about 21 a year). Compared with the U.S., intimidation 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. Lamesa's figures add up its 11 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Lamesa 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: 8,223. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Lamesa, Texas." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/tx/lamesa
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