CrimeMetric

Crime in Pasadena, Texas

Major crime in Pasadena is 10% above the U.S. rate per resident: about the same for persons crimes and 13% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 20.7% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
110
10% above the U.S. rate
about the Texas rate
down 20.7% in a year
Persons crimes
99
about the U.S. rate
about the Texas rate
down 32.8% in a year
Property crimes
113
13% above the U.S. rate
about the Texas rate
down 17.8% in a year
Social disorder
83
17% below the U.S. rate
23% below the Texas rate
down 32.1% 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 2.1 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Pasadena 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 Pasadena

The middle half of Pasadena residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 60 and 133; the typical (median) resident's is 90. The citywide figure (110) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Pasadena, 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.
  • 0–5020.9%
  • 50–10037.0%
  • 100–20030.2%
  • 200–40011.1%
  • 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 weeknights

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm96
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am126
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm104
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am122
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 20.7% in a year; across Texas it fell 9.2%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-20.7%TX -9.2%-13.8%TX -8.6%
Persons crimes-32.8%TX -8.9%-4.0%TX +2.5%
Property crimes-17.8%TX -9.3%-15.6%TX -10.7%
Social disorder-32.1%TX -7.7%-7.6%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

Pasadena against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents

132 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Pasadena; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:

Columbia, SC155,222214
Springfield, MA155,024199
Rockford, IL152,361163
Pasadena, TX153,804110
Bellevue, WA155,550104
Midland, TX152,61299
Joliet, IL155,74779
Olathe, KS153,38960

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

Nearby places

Pasadena 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, South Houston (3 mi), is 32% above Pasadena's rate.

Webster10 mi262
Pasadena110
Cloverleaf8 mi100
Deer Park4 mi75
La Porte7 mi70

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

Questions about crime in Pasadena

What are the most common crimes in Pasadena?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 643 a year), theft from vehicle (about 572 a year) and shoplifting (about 503 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 2.1 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. Pasadena's figures add up its 97 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Pasadena has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 94.1% 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: 153,804. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100