CrimeMetric

Crime in Pharr, Texas

Major crime in Pharr is 23% below the U.S. rate per resident: 33% lower for persons crimes and 21% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 1.1% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
77
23% below the U.S. rate
32% below the Texas rate
down 1.1% in a year
Persons crimes
67
33% below the U.S. rate
33% below the Texas rate
down 2.1% in a year
Property crimes
79
21% below the U.S. rate
31% below the Texas rate
about flat in a year
Social disorder
102
about the U.S. rate
about the Texas rate
about flat 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

Simple assault and rape / sexual assault stand out most, at about 32% above the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Pharr 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 Pharr

The middle half of Pharr residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 36 and 83; the typical (median) resident's is 52. The citywide figure (77) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Pharr, 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.
  • 0–5041.5%
  • 50–10036.4%
  • 100–20016.5%
  • 200–4005.2%
  • 400+0.3%

Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.

When it happens

Highest at night

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm65
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am90
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm68
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am91
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 1.1% in a year; across Texas it fell 9.2%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-1.1%TX -9.2%-13.7%TX -8.6%
Persons crimes-2.1%TX -8.9%-1.1%TX +2.5%
Property crimes-0.9%TX -9.3%-16.1%TX -10.7%
Social disorder+0.9%TX -7.7%-6.5%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

Pharr against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents

344 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Pharr; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:

Missoula, MT81,412165
Longview, TX81,945122
Bismarck, ND80,810105
Largo, FL81,20285
Pharr, TX81,36577
Caldwell, ID81,02859
Plymouth, MN80,91951

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

Nearby places

Pharr 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, San Juan (3 mi), is about Pharr's rate.

Donna8 mi327
Alamo4 mi200
McAllen5 mi84
Edinburg9 mi80
Pharr77
San Juan3 mi75
Hidalgo6 mi71
Mission9 mi65
Murillo7 mi63

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

Questions about crime in Pharr

What are the most common crimes in Pharr?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 441 a year), theft from vehicle (about 175 a year) and shoplifting (about 131 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: 32% 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. Pharr's figures add up its 55 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Pharr has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 15.2% 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: 81,365. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100