Crime in Port Arthur, Texas
Major crime in Port Arthur is about the U.S. rate per resident: 1.7 times for persons crimes and 17% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 11.3% 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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Burglary stands out most, at 2.3 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Port Arthur 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 Port Arthur
The middle half of Port Arthur residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 53 and 127; the typical (median) resident's is 88.
- 0–5020.6%
- 50–10044.0%
- 100–20030.7%
- 200–4004.7%
- 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 Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 11.3% 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.
Port Arthur against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
237 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Port Arthur; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Port Arthur has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Groves (3 mi), is 20% below Port Arthur's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Port Arthur
What are the most common crimes in Port Arthur?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are burglary (about 214 a year), aggravated assault (about 210 a year) and other larceny (about 172 a year). Compared with the U.S., burglary 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. Port Arthur's figures add up its 55 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Port Arthur has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 77.6% 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: 55,775. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Port Arthur, Texas." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/tx/port-arthur
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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