Crime & Safety in Pearland
Crime-data sources frame Pearland's safety differently depending on the comparison baseline used: CrimeGrade.org gives the city an overall B+ for 2026 and cites a violent crime rate 41% lower than the national average, while NeighborhoodScout describes Pearland's crime rate as higher than 72% of Texas cities and towns of all sizes -- a real difference in framing (compared to the nation vs. compared to every Texas municipality, including many small towns) rather than a straightforward contradiction.
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Learn moreCrimeGrade: Overall B+, Violent Crime Well Below the National Average
CrimeGrade.org gives Pearland an overall crime grade of B+ for 2026, citing a violent crime rate of 224.2 per 100,000 residents -- 41% lower than the U.S. average. Property crime reads less favorably in the same source's breakdown, with sources describing roughly a 1-in-50 annual property-crime risk, driven mainly by larceny and burglary, though CrimeGrade's overall letter grade for the city still lands solidly above average.
NeighborhoodScout: A Relative-to-Texas Framing That Reads Less Favorably
NeighborhoodScout's own broader analysis describes Pearland as safer than most comparable U.S. cities of similar size, but separately notes that, relative to Texas specifically, Pearland's crime rate is higher than 72% of the state's cities and towns of all sizes. That comparison baseline includes a large number of very small Texas towns, which tend to post very low raw crime counts -- a genuinely different, and less favorable-sounding, framing than a same-size-city national comparison, without the two readings actually contradicting each other's underlying data.
Why the Framings Differ, and How to Use This
CrimeGrade and NeighborhoodScout are using different comparison groups (national same-size-city rate vs. all-Texas-municipality percentile ranking), not necessarily different underlying facts about Pearland -- both can be true at once. Rather than picking whichever framing sounds better, the honest takeaway is that Pearland reads as safer than most similarly sized U.S. cities but also as higher-crime than most of the (very heterogeneous) universe of all Texas places. This page intentionally does not name or rank individual neighborhoods as higher- or lower-crime -- check current, address-specific data directly with these platforms or the Pearland Police Department before deciding.
Key takeaways
- CrimeGrade.org gives Pearland an overall B+ for 2026, citing a violent crime rate of 224.2 per 100,000 residents -- 41% below the national average -- though property crime risk (roughly 1 in 50 annually) reads less favorably than the overall grade.
- NeighborhoodScout describes Pearland as safer than most comparably sized U.S. cities, but also notes its crime rate is higher than 72% of Texas cities and towns of all sizes -- a different comparison baseline (national same-size peer group vs. all-Texas ranking), not a straightforward contradiction of CrimeGrade's figures.
- No specific neighborhood is named or ranked here as higher- or lower-crime -- check current, address-specific data directly before deciding.
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