Denton Auto theft
Denton · Auto theft · updated 2026-11-12
In 2018, the latest complete year, Denton police open data recorded 221 auto theft incidents, 2.4% of all 9,155 incidents reported in the city that year and up 3.3% from 2017. That is about 133 per 100,000 residents, compared with 503 per 100,000 across the 24 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2018 data that list this crime type.
Auto theft 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: 1,667 auto theft incidents.
Questions
How many auto theft incidents were reported in Denton in 2018?
221, according to Denton Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.
Is auto theft going up or down in Denton?
Reported auto theft was up 3.3% in 2018 compared with 2017, and up 16.3% 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 assault 1,226 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 sexual assault 148 in 2018
- Denton robbery 97 in 2018
- Denton homicide 2 in 2018