2016–2025 · 4 published indicators
Austin
crime trends.
Austin Police crime reports for assault, auto theft, burglary, and robbery.
Sources & methodologyBy category · 2025
Trends across 4 indicators
Select an indicator to explore it on the map and charts. Each mini-chart has its own scale; compare the labelled values.
Citywide · 10 council districts
Assault count, 2025 · by council district
Local boundaries shaded by one category at a time, in the active unit, for the selected year. Hover for a quick read; click to open the full council district view.
Count by year
counts · 2016–2025 · baseline = all categoriesView chart data
Full years only; incomplete YTD totals are excluded. Not available means a value is missing, not zero.
| Year | Assault | All categories (baseline) |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 2,091 | 10,210 |
| 2017 | 2,231 | 9,481 |
| 2018 | 2,057 | 9,653 |
| 2019 | 2,201 | 10,449 |
| 2020 | 2,582 | 12,259 |
| 2021 | 2,768 | 12,737 |
| 2022 | 2,889 | 13,560 |
| 2023 | 2,713 | 14,870 |
| 2024 | 2,481 | 13,268 |
| 2025 | 2,192 | 11,320 |
How the series is built
Counts come from Austin Open Data crime reports, grouped by occurrence year, category, and council district. 2026 is year-to-date and stays out of the ten-year comparison until that year is complete.
Assault keeps aggravated assault only. Theft that is not auto theft stays in the source extract and is not plotted, because the file does not publish a theft-over threshold.
Population
Citywide rates use U.S. Census Bureau city estimates. 2016–2019 are from the 2010-based vintage and 2020–2025 from the 2020-based vintage, so the denominator changes base in 2020. District rates use 2020 Census block-group population assigned by each block group’s internal point. That allocation can sit slightly above the city estimate when a block group’s internal point falls in a district.
0.4% of these indicator reports could not be placed in a local area and stay in the city totals only.
Reading the data
Three numbers that need context
Data summary for Austin-wide
| Year | Assault | Auto Theft | Burglary | Robbery |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 22.3 | 21.4 | 54.7 | 10.3 |
| 2017 | 23.4 | 21.0 | 45.4 | 9.8 |
| 2018 | 21.4 | 25.2 | 43.3 | 10.3 |
| 2019 | 22.5 | 30.1 | 43.5 | 10.6 |
| 2020 | 26.8 | 40.1 | 49.1 | 11.3 |
| 2021 | 28.6 | 45.5 | 47.6 | 10.1 |
| 2022 | 29.5 | 52.1 | 47.5 | 9.4 |
| 2023 | 27.4 | 68.6 | 45.3 | 9.0 |
| 2024 | 24.8 | 58.4 | 41.5 | 8.2 |
| 2025 | 21.9 | 42.6 | 40.9 | 7.5 |
About this data
How to read these figures
- What does “crime” mean for Austin?
- Crime by council district means the indicators Austin Police Department publishes for Austin (2016–2025). They are reported incident or offence counts, not arrests, charges, or a safety score. The same heading in another city is not the same offence.
- Where do the numbers come from?
- Police figures come from Austin Police Department. Area boundaries come from City of Austin · council districts. Rates, when a denominator exists, use U.S. Census Bureau · population and are shown per 10,000 residents. A missing year, indicator, or boundary stays missing.
- How often is this updated?
- The site is updated periodically, with no fixed public schedule and no live feed. Comparable charts use full years. A year-to-date control, when the page has one, labels the partial year separately.
- What does this not show?
- Drug offences and overdose deaths are separate series, not part of these council districts. There is no single cross-city crime index. Counting rules and source links are on the Austin about page.