Crime in Wichita Falls, Texas
Major crime in Wichita Falls is 42% above the U.S. rate per resident: 38% higher for persons crimes and 43% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 3.9% 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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Intimidation stands out most, at 3.1 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Wichita Falls 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 Wichita Falls
The middle half of Wichita Falls residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 43 and 160; the typical (median) resident's is 102. The citywide figure (142) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5028.6%
- 50–10021.4%
- 100–20034.7%
- 200–4009.1%
- 400+6.2%
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 3.9% 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.
Wichita Falls against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
84 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Wichita Falls; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Wichita Falls has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Iowa Park (10 mi), is 81% below Wichita Falls's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Wichita Falls
What are the most common crimes in Wichita Falls?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 815 a year), shoplifting (about 416 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 379 a year). Compared with the U.S., intimidation stands out most: 3.1 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. Wichita Falls's figures add up its 89 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Wichita Falls's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 35.2% 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: 102,343. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Wichita Falls, Texas." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/tx/wichita-falls
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Iowa Park10 mi27
- Burkburnett13 mi38
- Henrietta20 mi32
- Electra25 mi87
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- Waurika, OK37 mi57
- Olney39 mi34
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