By Ben Jimenez
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Irving, TX
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November 4, 2026
Short answer: Irving's reported crime fell in 2025, and its citywide violent crime rate came in below both the Texas and U.S. rates. Its property crime rate was below Texas but above the U.S. Those are citywide numbers. They can't tell you about one street, and I won't rate any part of Irving for you. What I can do is show you the data and how to check an address yourself.
One note: I'm a real estate agent, not an attorney or a law enforcement source.
The newest full year is 2025. The FBI Crime Data Explorer, refreshed October 15, 2026, shows this for the Irving Police Department, using a population of 258,220:
The same FBI data puts 2025 violent crime at 348.4 per 100,000 in Texas and 329.6 in the U.S. Property crime was 1,808.8 in Texas and 1,552.3 in the U.S.
The state tells a similar story. The Texas Department of Public Safety's 2025 Crime in Texas report lists Irving among 25 large Texas agencies. Irving's index crime rate was 2,064.13 per 100,000 in 2025, down 19.03 percent from 2024 and 28.61 percent from 2021. The combined rate for all 25 agencies was 2,777.88.
Keep that drop in context. DPS says every one of those 25 agencies saw its rate fall from 2024 to 2025, and the FBI's national numbers fell too.
The two sources also don't match exactly. DPS lists 708 violent crimes for Irving in 2025, and the FBI lists 692. The DPS report is a snapshot of data reported by March 20, 2026, while the FBI figures I used were refreshed in October. Pick one source when you compare years, and don't mix them.
The citywide total hides real differences by offense. Here's the FBI count for Irving, 2024 to 2025:
So most of the 2025 improvement came from property crime. Burglary didn't move, and aggravated assault went the other way.
The homicide number needs care. Small counts swing hard from year to year. The FBI series for Irving runs 12, 14, 14, 20 and 4 from 2021 through 2025, so one low year isn't a trend.
The 2026 numbers are partial. For January through September, the FBI shows 487 violent crimes, compared with 526 in the same months of 2025, and 2,799 property crimes, compared with 3,473. That's down 7.4 percent and 19.4 percent. Aggravated assault shows 329 so far, compared with 344 in the same months of 2025. Treat all of these as preliminary, since agencies can update recent data.
You don't need me or a third party website for this. Go to the source:
Look at a full year of data, not one week. And remember that a pin on a map is a report tied to a location. It isn't a statement about the home you're looking at or the people around it.
Crime data is useful, but only if you know what it leaves out.
Be careful with "safety scores" on third party sites, too. They use their own formulas, and those formulas aren't the police data. If a number matters to your decision, trace it back to the FBI, DPS or the Irving Police Department.
Want help finding the public records for a home you're considering in Irving? Call or text Ben Jimenez at 469-730-6895. I'll show you where the data lives so you can read it and decide for yourself.
Calling an area good or bad is an opinion, and fair housing rules are a big reason agents keep opinions out of it. I'll point you to published data and let you read it yourself. You know what matters to you better than I do.
Sources pull data at different times and use different methods. For 2024 homicides, for example, one data site showed 19 while the FBI's current figures show 20. When numbers disagree, go back to the FBI or DPS and note the date you checked.
Be careful. Irving now reports through the National Incident-Based Reporting System, and the city's page says its older UCR data runs through 2019. The two systems collect data differently, so a long comparison across that switch can mislead you.
You can ask. Irving's Police Records Section is at the Criminal Justice Center, 305 N. O'Connor Road, and the city also has an open records portal. What you receive depends on the record.
The FBI data I used was last refreshed October 15, 2026, with Irving figures through September. The DPS annual report comes out once a year and doesn't change after that, while the state's online crime portal can change as agencies submit or revise records.
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