Crime in Odessa, Texas
Major crime in Odessa is 23% below the U.S. rate per resident: about the same for persons crimes and 27% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 11.5% 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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Simple assault stands out most, at 2.3 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Odessa 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 Odessa
The middle half of Odessa residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 36 and 99; the typical (median) resident's is 63. The citywide figure (77) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5041.5%
- 50–10034.1%
- 100–20019.3%
- 200–4005.1%
- 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 Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 11.5% 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.
Odessa against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
203 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Odessa; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Odessa 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, West Odessa (8 mi), is 26% above Odessa's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Odessa
What are the most common crimes in Odessa?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 383 a year), aggravated assault (about 289 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 273 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: 2.3 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. Odessa's figures add up its 91 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Odessa has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 79.2% 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: 125,384. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Odessa, Texas." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/tx/odessa
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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