El Paso, TX crime rate
In 2025 the El Paso Police Department reported 288.3 violent crimes and 1,341.8 property crimes per 100,000 residents it covers. The FBI's estimates for Texas and the US for the same year are beside each number.
Data as of 2025 (FBI), checked October 30, 2026. How we got these numbers
Data notes.
- Murder, 2024: possibly incomplete. 20 reported; 3 of 12 months zero (Feb, Apr, Jun) while other offenses were reported in those months; 2025: 26 reported. The count is shown; its rate is not compared.
- Rape, 2023: unusual change, check the source. 2022: 269, 2023: 131, 2024: 267 (under 60% of both neighbouring years). Changes to and from 2023 are not shown.
- Murder, 2023: unusual change, check the source. 2022: 22, 2023: 37, 2024: 20 (over 160% of both neighbouring years). Changes to and from 2023 are not shown.
How does El Paso compare with Texas and the US?
Arson has no FBI state or US estimate, so its row shows El Paso only.
What offenses were reported in El Paso, 2025?
| Offense | Reported | Per 100k | Texas | US | vs 2024 | vs 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crime | ||||||
| Violent crime | 1,967 | 288.3 | 344.9 | 327.6 | down 9.8% | up 10.0% |
| Murder | 26 | 3.8 | 4.6 | 4.1 | See data note | down 20.8% |
| Rape | 250 | 36.6 | 47.6 | 36.1 | down 6.9% | down 26.9% |
| Robbery | 225 | 33.0 | 52.0 | 49.4 | down 12.2% | down 7.0% |
| Aggravated assault | 1,466 | 214.9 | 240.7 | 238.0 | down 10.4% | up 25.2% |
| Property crime | ||||||
| Property crime | 9,155 | 1,341.8 | 1,786.0 | 1,534.8 | down 11.1% | up 3.4% |
| Burglary | 773 | 113.3 | 246.6 | 193.6 | down 19.8% | down 34.0% |
| Larceny-theft | 6,499 | 952.5 | 1,291.2 | 1,144.1 | down 11.4% | down 2.2% |
| Motor vehicle theft | 1,805 | 264.5 | 248.2 | 197.0 | down 6.3% | up 82.2% |
| Arson | 78 | 11.4 | Not estimated | Not estimated | up 11.8% | up 90.0% |
Reported = offenses known to the El Paso Police Department and sent to the FBI. Texas and US are FBI estimates for the same year. Changes compare rates of full years only.
Violent crime rate, 2021 to 2025
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| Year | El Paso | United States | Texas |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 262.0 | 387.0 | 453.0 |
| 2022 | 311.0 | 388.7 | 436.2 |
| 2023 | 315.4 | 379.5 | 407.3 |
| 2024 | 319.7 | 362.9 | 394.5 |
| 2025 | 288.3 | 327.6 | 344.9 |
Property crime rate, 2021 to 2025
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| Year | El Paso | United States | Texas |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1,297.1 | 1,832.3 | 2,171.9 |
| 2022 | 1,391.9 | 1,973.8 | 2,309.2 |
| 2023 | 1,634.6 | 1,934.1 | 2,229.3 |
| 2024 | 1,509.3 | 1,761.1 | 2,055.5 |
| 2025 | 1,341.8 | 1,534.8 | 1,786.0 |
Is El Paso safe?
We don't rate cities as safe or unsafe. What the FBI's numbers show: in 2025 the violent crime rate the El Paso Police Department reported, 288.3 per 100,000 residents, was lower than Texas's 344.9, and lower than the US rate of 327.6 (FBI estimates). It fell 9.8% from 2024.
What these numbers can't tell you:
- How crime differs between neighborhoods (the FBI publishes agency totals only).
- Crimes nobody reported to the police.
- How many offenses involved visitors and commuters, who are not in the population count.
El Paso's violent crime rate in 2025, 288.3 per 100,000 residents covered by the El Paso Police Department, was below the FBI's Texas estimate of 344.9 and the US rate of 327.6. The department had 1,967 violent crimes and 9,155 property crimes reported to the FBI that year. Property crime, at 1,341.8 per 100,000, was also below the state's 1,786.0 and the national 1,534.8.
Both measures fell from 2024 to 2025, violent crime by 9.8% and property crime by 11.1%. The 2025 violent rate is 10.0% above 2021, when it was 262.0. Property crime is 3.4% higher than in 2021.
Aggravated assault rose 25.2% from 2021 to 2025 and made up 75% of violent crime. There were 26 homicides in 2025, 3.8 per 100,000, and the murder rate was 20.8% lower than in 2021. Burglary fell the most of the property offenses in both periods, 34.0% since 2021 and 19.8% since 2024.
Motor vehicle theft rose 82.2% from 2021, to 264.5 per 100,000. The 2023 rape and murder counts are flagged as unusual changes and the 2024 murder count as possibly incomplete, so none of them is compared. All 12 months were sent for each of the 5 years shown, and NIBRS reporting began in 2019.
The El Paso County Sheriff's Office, El Paso Community College, El Paso Independent School District and University of Texas at El Paso police report separately.
Written from the numbers on this page. Every figure and every comparison is checked against the stored FBI data before publishing.
Police employees, 2025: 2.06 per 1,000 residents (1,135 officers, 272 civilians), FBI Crime Data Explorer. Shown as context, not as a measure of crime.
Other Texas cities
The nearest Texas cities with a page, in alphabetical order. VC = violent crime per 100,000, 2025.
Sources
- FBI Crime Data Explorer, El Paso Police Department (ORI TX0710200), offenses known to law enforcement and police employees, 2021 to 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026. Crime Data Explorer
- FBI Crime Data Explorer, Texas and United States estimated crime (Summary Reporting System estimates), 2021 to 2025.
- FBI, "UCR Statistics: Their Proper Use" (why we don't rank cities).
Every stored file behind this page (11)
- El Paso Police Department (TX0710200): violent crime, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_TX0710200_violent_crime__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- El Paso Police Department (TX0710200): murder, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_TX0710200_homicide__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- El Paso Police Department (TX0710200): rape, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_TX0710200_rape__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- El Paso Police Department (TX0710200): robbery, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_TX0710200_robbery__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- El Paso Police Department (TX0710200): aggravated assault, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_TX0710200_aggravated_assault__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- El Paso Police Department (TX0710200): property crime, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_TX0710200_property_crime__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- El Paso Police Department (TX0710200): burglary, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_TX0710200_burglary__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- El Paso Police Department (TX0710200): larceny-theft, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_TX0710200_larceny__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- El Paso Police Department (TX0710200): motor vehicle theft, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_TX0710200_motor_vehicle_theft__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- El Paso Police Department (TX0710200): arson, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_TX0710200_arson__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- El Paso Police Department (TX0710200): police employees, 2021 to 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/pe_agency_TX0710200__from-2021-to-2025.json)