CrimeMetric

Crime in Roanoke, Texas

Major crime in Roanoke is 41% below the U.S. rate per resident: 70% lower for persons crimes and 34% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.1% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
59
41% below the U.S. rate
47% below the Texas rate
down 9.1% in a year
Persons crimes
30
70% below the U.S. rate
70% below the Texas rate
down 6.9% in a year
Property crimes
66
34% below the U.S. rate
42% below the Texas rate
down 9.3% in a year
Social disorder
75
25% below the U.S. rate
30% below the Texas rate
down 7.4% 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

Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 40% above the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Roanoke 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 Roanoke

The middle half of Roanoke residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 27 and 81; the typical (median) resident's is 37. The citywide figure (59) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Roanoke, 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.
  • 0–5053.8%
  • 50–10039.0%
  • 100–2000.0%
  • 200–4007.2%
  • 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 weeknights and on weekend daytimes

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm58
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am62
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm62
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am54
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 9.1% in a year; across Texas it fell 9.2%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-9.1%TX -9.2%+0.7%TX -8.6%
Persons crimes-6.9%TX -8.9%+13.9%TX +2.5%
Property crimes-9.3%TX -9.3%-0.6%TX -10.7%
Social disorder-7.4%TX -7.7%+5.2%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

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

1,301 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Roanoke; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Ada, OK15,322379
Fairview, OR15,340163
Overland, MO15,356148
Roanoke, TX15,34559
Troy, MO15,35843
Berkley, MI15,32025

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

Nearby places

Roanoke 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, Keller (6 mi), is 45% below Roanoke's rate.

Grapevine10 mi85
Watauga10 mi61
Roanoke59
Keller6 mi33
Argyle7 mi28
Southlake6 mi25

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

Questions about crime in Roanoke

What are the most common crimes in Roanoke?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 64 a year), theft from vehicle (about 26 a year) and shoplifting (about 26 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 40% 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. Roanoke's figures add up its 7 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Roanoke has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 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: 15,345. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100