Crime in Lancaster, Texas
Major crime in Lancaster is 1.7 times the U.S. rate per resident: 8% higher for persons crimes and 1.9 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are about flat 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 Lancaster 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 Lancaster
The middle half of Lancaster residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 62 and 129; the typical (median) resident's is 74. The citywide figure (174) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–509.9%
- 50–10047.6%
- 100–20030.1%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+12.4%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekend daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 0.7% 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.
Lancaster against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
86 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Lancaster; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Lancaster 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, DeSoto (4 mi), is 56% below Lancaster's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Lancaster
What are the most common crimes in Lancaster?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 326 a year), theft from vehicle (about 320 a year) and motor vehicle theft (about 149 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. Lancaster's figures add up its 21 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Lancaster's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 79.5% 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: 40,271. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Lancaster, Texas." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/tx/lancaster
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- DeSoto4 mi77
- Glenn Heights5 mi49
- Red Oak6 mi73
- Wilmer6 mi149
- Duncanville8 mi107
- Cedar Hill9 mi101
- Balch Springs13 mi140
- Waxahachie14 mi57