Crime in Palestine, Texas
Major crime in Palestine is 8% above the U.S. rate per resident: 35% higher for persons crimes and about the same for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.8% 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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Rape / sexual assault stands out most, at 3.9 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Palestine 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 Palestine
The middle half of Palestine residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 43 and 186; the typical (median) resident's is 74. The citywide figure (108) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5045.4%
- 50–10016.8%
- 100–20020.0%
- 200–40017.8%
- 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 weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.8% 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.
Palestine against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
578 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Palestine; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Palestine 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, Jacksonville (26 mi), is 48% below Palestine's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Palestine
What are the most common crimes in Palestine?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 160 a year), aggravated assault (about 52 a year) and shoplifting (about 45 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 3.9 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. Palestine's figures add up its 16 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Palestine's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 0.0% 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: 19,807. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Palestine, Texas." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/tx/palestine
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Jacksonville26 mi56
- Rusk29 mi45
- Crockett32 mi71
- Athens33 mi77
- Teague38 mi61
- Whitehouse41 mi29
- Tyler44 mi107
- Gun Barrel City49 mi72