CrimeMetric

Crime in Rowlett, Texas

Major crime in Rowlett is 19% below the U.S. rate per resident: 51% lower for persons crimes and 12% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 3.5% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
81
19% below the U.S. rate
28% below the Texas rate
up 3.5% in a year
Persons crimes
49
51% below the U.S. rate
52% below the Texas rate
down 5.3% in a year
Property crimes
88
12% below the U.S. rate
23% below the Texas rate
up 4.7% in a year
Social disorder
89
11% below the U.S. rate
16% below the Texas rate
up 1.5% 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

Weapons violations stand out most, at 21% above the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Rowlett 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 Rowlett

The middle half of Rowlett residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 35 and 76; the typical (median) resident's is 50. The citywide figure (81) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Rowlett, 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.
  • 0–5052.0%
  • 50–10025.4%
  • 100–20017.1%
  • 200–4002.9%
  • 400+2.5%

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 6pm88
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am77
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm82
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am68
Trend and outlook

Major crime rose 3.5% in a year; across Texas it fell 9.2%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime+3.5%TX -9.2%-6.9%TX -8.6%
Persons crimes-5.3%TX -8.9%+6.6%TX +2.5%
Property crimes+4.7%TX -9.3%-8.6%TX -10.7%
Social disorder+1.5%TX -7.7%+0.4%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

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

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

Dothan, AL70,414185
Harlingen, TX70,201151
Lafayette, IN70,671110
Portland, ME70,53188
Bethesda, MD69,53582
Rowlett, TX69,90881
Eastvale, CA69,89957

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

Nearby places

Rowlett has a higher major-crime index than 7 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Rockwall (5 mi), is 23% below Rowlett's rate.

Garland5 mi98
Rowlett81
Rockwall5 mi62
Sunnyvale8 mi49
Heath6 mi33
Sachse5 mi32
Murphy9 mi30
Wylie7 mi28
Fate10 mi28

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

Questions about crime in Rowlett

What are the most common crimes in Rowlett?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 401 a year), shoplifting (about 203 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 160 a year). Compared with the U.S., weapons violations stands out most: 21% 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. Rowlett's figures add up its 29 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Rowlett's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
  • 37.6% 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: 69,908. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100