Crime in Mesquite, Texas
Major crime in Mesquite is 44% above the U.S. rate per resident: 17% higher for persons crimes and 50% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.5% 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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Weapons violations stand out most, at 3.1 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Mesquite 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 Mesquite
The middle half of Mesquite residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 69 and 158; the typical (median) resident's is 101. The citywide figure (144) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–508.4%
- 50–10039.2%
- 100–20038.8%
- 200–4009.0%
- 400+4.6%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.5% 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.
Mesquite against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
81 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Mesquite; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Mesquite 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, Sunnyvale (3 mi), is 66% below Mesquite's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Mesquite
What are the most common crimes in Mesquite?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 876 a year), theft from vehicle (about 746 a year) and other larceny (about 642 a year). Compared with the U.S., weapons violations stands out most: 3.1 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. Mesquite's figures add up its 85 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Mesquite has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 100.0% 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: 150,924. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Mesquite, Texas." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/tx/mesquite
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