Denton Sexual assault
Denton · Sexual assault · updated 2026-11-12
In 2018, the latest complete year, Denton police open data recorded 148 sexual assault incidents, 1.6% of all 9,155 incidents reported in the city that year and up 5.0% from 2017. That is about 89.2 per 100,000 residents, compared with 96.4 per 100,000 across the 22 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2018 data that list this crime type.
Sexual 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: 1,294 sexual assault incidents.
Questions
How many sexual assault incidents were reported in Denton in 2018?
148, according to Denton Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.
Is sexual assault going up or down in Denton?
Reported sexual assault was up 5.0% in 2018 compared with 2017, and up 41.0% 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 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 auto theft 221 in 2018
- Denton robbery 97 in 2018
- Denton homicide 2 in 2018