Austin · Drugs & public health

See the trend.

What changed, how much, and over which years.

Explore recorded drug offences and available overdose deaths. Each measure keeps its own definition and geography.

Death figures cover Travis County, Texas, including areas beyond Austin. Source: CDC/NCHS. Original data are available free from CDC. This use does not imply endorsement by CDC, HHS or the U.S. Government.

01 / Police data

Drug offence trends

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City of Austin

Drug/narcotic violations

Last updated 2026-10-01Reviewed dataset

Latest complete year · 20255,256NIBRS offense rows

Year over year+28.3%2024 → 2025

Change since 2019+12.6%2019 → 2025

NIBRS offense rows2025 · 5,256

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Drug/narcotic violations · NIBRS offense rows · complete years
Year	Value
2019	4,667
2020	2,942
2021	2,429
2022	2,843
2023	3,163
2024	4,097
2025	5,256

02 / Public health

Overdose deaths

Deaths are a separate measure. Police counts do not measure overdose deaths or drug use.

Travis County, Texas · county context

Drug overdose deaths · county residents

Last updated 2026-10-01Reviewed dataset

Latest complete year · 2024299deaths

Year over year−15.8%2023 → 2024

Change since 2020+38.4%2020 → 2024

deaths2024 · 299

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Drug overdose deaths · county residents · deaths · complete years
Year	Value
2020	216
2021	269
2022	338
2023	355
2024	299

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03 / Behind the numbers

Sources & coverage

Last updated 2026-10-01 · accepted source review.

The reviewed crime-report extract (fdj4-gpfu) has no drug category. These counts are the separate NIBRS Group A offense file.
2016–2018 are absent from this NIBRS file and are not filled in.
There is no neighbourhood drug map.
These measures are not added into a drug index or used to rank cities. There is no neighbourhood drug map.

Austin Police Department · NIBRS Group A Offense Crimes

Open source ↗ · Last updated 2026-10-01 (reviewed)

City of Austin · City of Austin Open Data Terms of Use. Portal datasets are public domain unless metadata says otherwise. Attribute Austin Police.

CDC / National Center for Health Statistics · County-level drug overdose death counts — December annual totals

Open source ↗ · Last updated 2026-10-01 (reviewed)

Travis County, Texas · county context · Public Domain U.S. Government; attribution and non-endorsement notice retained.

Provisional counts may underestimate final totals.