CrimeMetric

Crime in Red Oak, Texas

Major crime in Red Oak is 27% below the U.S. rate per resident: 43% lower for persons crimes and 23% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.0% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
73
27% below the U.S. rate
35% below the Texas rate
down 9.0% in a year
Persons crimes
57
43% below the U.S. rate
43% below the Texas rate
down 5.1% in a year
Property crimes
77
23% below the U.S. rate
33% below the Texas rate
down 9.7% in a year
Social disorder
90
10% below the U.S. rate
16% below the Texas rate
down 5.7% 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

Vandalism and motor vehicle theft stand out most, at about 11% above the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Red Oak 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 Red Oak

The middle half of Red Oak residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 58 and 72; the typical (median) resident's is 72.

Map of Red Oak, 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. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5017.7%
  • 50–10073.5%
  • 100–2008.9%
  • 200–4000.0%
  • 400+0.0%

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 weekday daytimes

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm84
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am70
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm69
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am51
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 9.0% in a year; across Texas it fell 9.2%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-9.0%TX -9.2%+0.5%TX -8.6%
Persons crimes-5.1%TX -8.9%+14.2%TX +2.5%
Property crimes-9.7%TX -9.3%-1.7%TX -10.7%
Social disorder-5.7%TX -7.7%+5.9%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

Red Oak against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents

1,053 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Red Oak; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Tarboro, NC12,296126
Dunkirk, NY12,300103
Red Oak, TX12,31173
Andrews, TX12,32057

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

Nearby places

Red Oak has a higher major-crime index than 3 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Glenn Heights (3 mi), is 33% below Red Oak's rate.

Lancaster6 mi174
Wilmer9 mi149
Duncanville11 mi107
Cedar Hill9 mi101
DeSoto6 mi77
Red Oak73
Midlothian11 mi48

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

Questions about crime in Red Oak

What are the most common crimes in Red Oak?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 49 a year), theft from vehicle (about 26 a year) and motor vehicle theft (about 21 a year). Compared with the U.S., vandalism stands out most: 11% 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. Red Oak's figures add up its 5 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Red Oak has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 46.6% 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: 12,311. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Red Oak, Texas." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/tx/red-oak

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100