Crime & Safety in College Station
College Station consistently ranks as a comparatively low-crime city for its size, with both violent and property crime running well below national averages per aggregated FBI-sourced data. Crime trended down further in the most recent full year of data available.
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Learn moreViolent crime
College Station's violent crime rate is 170.5 per 100,000 residents, 52.51% below the national rate of 359.0, per HomeSnacks' 2025 crime report. Residents face roughly a 1-in-587 annual chance of being a violent-crime victim per that same source's modeling.
Property crime
College Station's property crime rate is 1,102.6 per 100,000 residents, 37.35% below the national rate of 1,760.0, per the same source -- roughly a 1-in-91 annual chance of being a property-crime victim.
A recent downward trend
The same report cites College Station's overall crime rate as having fallen 32% in 2025 compared to 2024, with 1 homicide recorded (down from 3 the year before) -- a real, disclosed year-over-year improvement rather than a static baseline. Separate KBTX local news coverage from March 2025 described Bryan-College Station crime rates as reflecting broader national downward trends, consistent directionally with the HomeSnacks figures.
Caveats on the data
These figures come from a third-party aggregator (HomeSnacks) built on FBI/local law-enforcement reporting rather than a direct FBI UCR/NIBRS pull performed this session. No neighborhood-level "bad area" claims are made here -- crime figures are citywide per-capita rates from named sources, not informal neighborhood reputation.
Key takeaways
- Violent crime runs 52.51% below the national average (170.5 vs. 359.0 per 100,000); property crime runs 37.35% below the national average (1,102.6 vs. 1,760.0 per 100,000), per HomeSnacks 2025.
- Overall crime fell 32% in 2025 versus 2024 per the same source, with 1 homicide recorded (down from 3 the prior year).
- Separate local news coverage (KBTX, March 2025) describes Bryan-College Station crime trends as consistent with broader national declines.
- Figures are citywide FBI-sourced per-capita rates from a named third-party aggregator -- not informal neighborhood-level claims.
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