Denton Assault
Denton · Assault · updated 2026-11-12
In 2018, the latest complete year, Denton police open data recorded 1,226 assault incidents, 13.4% of all 9,155 incidents reported in the city that year and up 5.9% from 2017. That is about 739 per 100,000 residents, compared with 1,378 per 100,000 across the 26 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2018 data that list this crime type.
Assault in Denton by year
Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 10,604 assault incidents.
Questions
How many assault incidents were reported in Denton in 2018?
1,226, according to Denton Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.
Is assault going up or down in Denton?
Reported assault was up 5.9% in 2018 compared with 2017, and up 23.0% compared with 2015 (rising over three years).
Where does this data come from?
Source: Denton Police Department open data. TheCrimeMaps.com groups each published offense into a crime type; counts are police-reported incidents, not convictions, and some reports are reclassified or removed by the source later.
Other crime types in Denton
- Denton other 2,733 in 2018
- Denton theft 1,644 in 2018
- Denton theft from vehicle 1,023 in 2018
- Denton fraud 976 in 2018
- Denton vandalism 686 in 2018
- Denton burglary 399 in 2018
- Denton auto theft 221 in 2018
- Denton sexual assault 148 in 2018
- Denton robbery 97 in 2018
- Denton homicide 2 in 2018