CrimeMetric

Crime in Lufkin, Texas

Major crime in Lufkin is 40% above the U.S. rate per resident: 49% higher for persons crimes and 38% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 3.6% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
140
40% above the U.S. rate
25% above the Texas rate
down 3.6% in a year
Persons crimes
149
49% above the U.S. rate
49% above the Texas rate
up 4.1% in a year
Property crimes
138
38% above the U.S. rate
21% above the Texas rate
down 5.2% in a year
Social disorder
164
1.6 times the U.S. rate
1.5 times the Texas rate
up 2.4% 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

Rape / sexual assault stands out most, at 3.3 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Lufkin 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 Lufkin

The middle half of Lufkin residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 62 and 173; the typical (median) resident's is 114. The citywide figure (140) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Lufkin, 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. Tap one to compare it. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–508.5%
  • 50–10024.5%
  • 100–20052.4%
  • 200–40013.7%
  • 400+0.8%

Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.

When it happens

Highest on weekday daytimes

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm177
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am88
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm165
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am124
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 3.6% in a year; across Texas it fell 9.2%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-3.6%TX -9.2%-13.9%TX -8.6%
Persons crimes+4.1%TX -8.9%-1.7%TX +2.5%
Property crimes-5.2%TX -9.3%-16.8%TX -10.7%
Social disorder+2.4%TX -7.7%-8.0%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

Lufkin against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents

150 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Lufkin; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:

Lufkin, TX34,779140
Florence, KY34,689119
O'Fallon, IL34,86259
Del Rio, TX34,65951
Sachse, TX34,87732

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

Nearby places

Lufkin has a higher major-crime index than 7 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Hudson (5 mi), is 74% below Lufkin's rate.

Livingston44 mi151
Lufkin140
Nacogdoches21 mi113
Onalaska42 mi79
Crockett43 mi71
Rusk41 mi45
Diboll10 mi45
Hudson5 mi36

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

Questions about crime in Lufkin

What are the most common crimes in Lufkin?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 262 a year), shoplifting (about 179 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 110 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 3.3 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. Lufkin's figures add up its 27 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Lufkin has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 85.0% 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: 34,779. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100