Crime in New Braunfels, Texas
Major crime in New Braunfels is 22% below the U.S. rate per resident: 43% lower for persons crimes and 17% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 1.8% 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 and other larceny stand out most, at about 11% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in New Braunfels 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 New Braunfels
The middle half of New Braunfels residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 30 and 94; the typical (median) resident's is 58. The citywide figure (78) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5039.0%
- 50–10038.8%
- 100–20014.5%
- 200–4007.7%
- 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 weekend daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime rose 1.8% 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.
New Braunfels against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
199 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than New Braunfels; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
New Braunfels has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Cibolo (10 mi), is 54% below New Braunfels's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in New Braunfels
What are the most common crimes in New Braunfels?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 745 a year), shoplifting (about 387 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 255 a year). Compared with the U.S., weapons violations stands out most: 11% above 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. New Braunfels's figures add up its 47 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- New Braunfels has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 60.1% 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: 137,745. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in New Braunfels, Texas." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/tx/new-braunfels
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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