Residents in Seagoville can go online and see where police were called during a given week, from burglaries and thefts to disturbances, suspicious activity and traffic incidents.
Finding the same kind of information for Crandall is considerably more difficult.
The Seagoville Police Department publishes a weekly blotter and maintains a crime-statistics page with year-to-year comparisons. The Crandall Police Department does not appear to publish a comparable weekly blotter on the city’s website.
That does not mean Crandall crime data does not exist.
Both departments report crime statistics to the Texas Department of Public Safety, and the state’s latest complete jurisdiction data provide a revealing — although complicated — look at crime handled by the two agencies during 2025.
The numbers show two distinctly different crime pictures.
Seagoville reported considerably more theft and motor-vehicle theft. Crandall Police, meanwhile, reported more than twice as many violent offenses in the four major violent-crime categories, despite Seagoville being the much larger city.
But there is an important reason the Crandall numbers cannot be used to simply declare one city safer than the other.
Crandall Police also provides law-enforcement services to several large communities outside Crandall’s traditional city limits, including Heartland, Wildcat Ranch, Highbridge and Eastland.
That makes the agency’s crime totals much more complicated than they first appear.
What Texas DPS Records Show
Texas DPS’s 2025 Crime by Jurisdiction report lists the following offenses reported by the two police departments:
| 2025 Offense | Seagoville Police | Crandall Police |
|---|---|---|
| Murder | 1 | 0 |
| Rape | 3 | 5 |
| Robbery | 6 | 4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 10 | 33 |
| Burglary | 55 | 52 |
| Larceny/Theft | 181 | 78 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 66 | 20 |
| Arson | 1 | 0 |
| Total Listed Offenses | 323 | 192 |
The difference in violent offenses is particularly noticeable.
Combining murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault, Seagoville Police reported 20 violent offenses in 2025.
Crandall Police reported 42.
Aggravated assault accounted for most of that difference. Crandall Police reported 33 aggravated assaults, compared with 10 reported by Seagoville Police.
Property crime produced almost the opposite picture.
Seagoville recorded 181 thefts and 66 motor-vehicle thefts, compared with 78 thefts and 20 vehicle thefts reported by Crandall Police.
Burglary was much closer, with Seagoville reporting 55 and Crandall Police reporting 52.
Why These Numbers Do Not Prove Crandall Is More Dangerous
At first glance, the violent-crime figures could produce an alarming comparison.
Texas DPS lists a population of 20,527 for Seagoville Police’s jurisdiction data and 6,611 for Crandall Police in the 2025 report.
Using those population numbers to calculate a simple crime rate, however, could create a misleading result.
The City of Crandall states that its police department has interlocal agreements to provide police services to Heartland, Wildcat Ranch, Highbridge and Eastland.
Because Crandall officers police those additional communities, the 192 offenses attributed to Crandall Police cannot safely be assumed to have all occurred within the incorporated City of Crandall.
The state jurisdiction spreadsheet does not separate the Crandall Police totals by Crandall, Heartland, Wildcat Ranch, Highbridge or Eastland.
Without that geographic breakdown, Shop in Seagoville will not characterize the data as showing that Crandall has a higher violent-crime rate than Seagoville.
What the records do establish is that Crandall Police handled and reported significantly more violent offenses than Seagoville Police in 2025, while Seagoville reported substantially more property offenses.
Where the Crandall incidents occurred is the next question.
Crandall Crime Fell From 2024 to 2025
The state records also provide some encouraging news for both communities.
Crandall Police reported 222 total listed offenses in 2024, compared with 192 in 2025 — a decline of approximately 13.5 percent.
Violent offenses declined from 50 to 42. Burglaries dropped from 68 to 52, while motor-vehicle thefts fell from 25 to 20.
Theft remained nearly unchanged, moving from 79 incidents in 2024 to 78 in 2025.
Seagoville also recorded an overall decline, although it was smaller.
Seagoville Police reported 333 listed offenses in 2024 and 323 in 2025.
One of the largest improvements involved vehicle theft.
Motor-vehicle theft dropped from 93 incidents in 2024 to 66 in 2025, a decline of nearly 30 percent.
At the same time, ordinary larceny and theft moved in the opposite direction, increasing from 155 to 181.
That means Seagoville continues to have a significant property-crime issue, but the most recent annual state data do not show vehicle theft getting worse. They show a substantial year-over-year decrease.
Another Crandall Number Deserves Attention
A separate Texas DPS supplemental report provides another statistic that warrants further examination.
Crandall Police reported 185 family-violence incidents during 2025.
Seagoville Police reported 61.
The previous year showed a similar difference: 174 incidents reported by Crandall Police and 56 by Seagoville Police.
Those numbers should not be confused with convictions or with the violent-crime totals listed above. Family-violence reporting is a separate state statistical category.
The same geographic issue also applies.
Without knowing how many of Crandall Police’s family-violence incidents occurred within Crandall itself and how many occurred in Heartland, Wildcat Ranch, Highbridge or Eastland, the numbers cannot fairly be presented as a City of Crandall family-violence rate.
But 185 incidents handled by one police agency in a year is significant enough to warrant additional scrutiny, particularly when residents currently have no comparable weekly public blotter showing where those calls are occurring.
Seagoville’s 2026 Numbers Are Trending Down
Seagoville residents also have access to more current information.
The department’s current NIBRS comparison shows 45 offenses in its 2026 year-to-date column compared with 95 during the comparable 2025 period, a decrease of 50 offenses.
The 2026 column includes 11 burglaries, 25 thefts, five motor-vehicle thefts and four aggravated assaults, with no homicides, rapes or robberies shown in the current year-to-date totals.
The city’s posted comparison does not clearly identify the cutoff date for those year-to-date figures, so they should not be interpreted as representing all crime through the current date.
They do, however, indicate that Seagoville’s reported major offenses were running substantially below the comparable period from 2025 when the table was updated.
Two Cities, Very Different Levels of Public Access
The comparison exposes something beyond the crime numbers themselves.
Seagoville residents can routinely see police activity through weekly blotters that list dates, call types and locations. The city also publishes a multi-year NIBRS crime comparison.
Crandall residents can obtain police records and statewide statistics, but the city’s public police pages do not currently provide the same kind of readily accessible weekly crime summary.
That information gap becomes more significant because Crandall Police is responsible for more than Crandall alone.
The department also serves rapidly growing communities outside the city’s traditional boundaries.
For someone living in Heartland, the question is not simply how many crimes Crandall Police reported.
It is how many occurred in Heartland.
The same question applies to Crandall, Wildcat Ranch, Highbridge and Eastland.
What the Numbers Tell Us — and What They Don’t
The latest state records provide enough information to challenge some assumptions about crime in the two communities.
Seagoville clearly has a larger property-crime problem in raw numbers, particularly theft and vehicle theft.
Crandall Police’s records show something different: fewer total offenses, but a surprisingly high number of aggravated assaults and family-violence incidents for an agency associated with a relatively small city.
What the publicly available state numbers do not tell residents is where within Crandall Police’s broader service area those crimes occurred.
That may ultimately be the most important missing piece.
Until Crandall Police crime data can be separated among Crandall, Heartland, Wildcat Ranch, Highbridge and Eastland, any attempt to rank the cities by crime rate would risk giving residents a misleading picture.
But the raw state numbers already make one thing clear:
Crandall’s crime picture is not unknowable simply because the city does not publish a weekly blotter. The data exist. The next step is finding out where the crimes are actually happening.
