Crime in Lubbock, Texas
Major crime in Lubbock is 27% above the U.S. rate per resident: 44% higher for persons crimes and 23% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 30.7% 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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Burglary stands out most, at 1.9 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Lubbock 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 Lubbock
The middle half of Lubbock residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 53 and 139; the typical (median) resident's is 93. The citywide figure (127) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5021.7%
- 50–10033.7%
- 100–20029.1%
- 200–40013.2%
- 400+2.2%
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 30.7% 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.
Lubbock against U.S. places with 250,000 to 500,000 residents
33 of the 53 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Lubbock; the middle of the group is 142. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Lubbock 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, Wolfforth (7 mi), is 70% below Lubbock's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Lubbock
What are the most common crimes in Lubbock?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 1,443 a year), theft from vehicle (about 1,113 a year) and aggravated assault (about 951 a year). Compared with the U.S., burglary stands out most: 1.9 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. Lubbock's figures add up its 188 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Lubbock's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 81.7% 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: 278,726. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Lubbock, Texas." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/tx/lubbock
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Wolfforth7 mi38
- Shallowater11 mi56
- Slaton17 mi109
- Abernathy19 mi24
- Levelland27 mi72
- Brownfield33 mi69
- Littlefield34 mi66
- Floydada44 mi81