Texas Family Violence Statistics 2020

Family violence in Texas falls into 5 general categories:

Assaults
Homicides
Kidnapping/Abductions
Robberies
Sex offenses

Assaults accounted for 96% of all family violence incidents in 2018.
Simple assault accounted for 75.1% of all family violence incidents in 2018.
Aggravated assault accounted for 13.2% of all family violence incident in 2018.
Intimidation accounted for 7.7% of all family violence offenses in 2018.
There were 197,023 family violence incidents in Texas in 2018.
Homicides accounted for 0.1% of all family violence incidents in 2018.
Kidnapping made up 0.5% of all family violence offenses in 2018.
Rape made up 1.5% of all family violence offenses in 2018.

Statistics of Victims of Family Violence in Texas

There were 212,885 victims of family violence in 2018.
Wives were the victim of domestic violence in 13.1% of all incidents.
Common-Law wives were victims of domestic violence in 9.5% of all incidents.
Ex-wives were victims of domestic violence in 3.2% of all incidents.
Wives, common-law wives and ex-wives made up 25.8% of all incidents of family violence in Texas.
“Other” female family members were victims of family violence 25.6% of the time in 2018 (this excludes married, parent/child, siblings and grandparents)
71.6% of family violence were female.
28.4% of family violence victims were male.
The age group of victims with the highest number of family violence incidents were 25-29 year olds.
39% of all family violence victims were hispanic.
61% of all family violence victims were non-hispanic.
68.5% of domestic violence victims in Texas were White.
28.9% of domestic violence victims in Texas were Black.
2.6% of domestic violence victims in Texas were American Indian, Alaskan Native, Asian or Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander.
174 women were killed by a male intimate parter across 64 counties in Texas in 2018 (compared to 136 women killed by a male intimate partner in 2017).
32 men were killed by their female intimate partners in 2018.
4 men were killed by same-sex partners in 2018.
1 female was killed by a same sex partner in 2018.
39% of women killed in family violence incidents were killed by a current or former intimate partner.
Harris County had 42 women killed by intimate partners in 2018, Bexar County (17), Dallas County (16), Tarrant (7) and Travis (6).
The youngest victim to die at the hands of an intimate partner was 16 years old in 2018.
There were 8 victims under the age of 19 who were killed by an intimate partner in 2018.

Statistics of Offenders of Family Violence in Texas

There were 207,360 offenders of family violence in 2018.
72.9% of all family violence offenders in Texas were male.
27.1% of all family violence offenders in Texas were female.
25-29 year olds had the highest number of offenders amongst all age groups (nearly 27,000 offender)
30-34 year olds had the 2nd highest number of offenders amongst all age groups (approximately 24,000)
39.2% of all offenders were Hispanic.
60.8% of all offenders were non-Hispanics.
65.6% of offenders were White (*some offenders are both white and hispanic)
32.1% of all family violence offenders were black.
2.3% of domestic violence victims in Texas were American Indian, Alaskan Native, Asian or Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander.
143 Texas law officers were assaulted during the course of responding to a domestic violence incident.

Statistics of Injuries from Family Violence Incidents in Texas

53.2% of all injuries were considered to be minor injuries
In 43% of all family violence incidents, there was “no injury” reported
3.8% of all family violence incidents involved major injuries
23.5% of all major injuries involved possible internal injuries
25.2% of serious injuries from family violence incidents involved severe lacerations.
20.7% of major injuries were classified as “other”
17.5% of all major injuries involved the victim being knocked unconscious.
10.4% of all major injuries from family violence involved broken bones.
2.7% of all major injuries from family violence incidents involved loss of teeth.

Statistics of Weapons Used in Family Violence Incidents in Texas

76% of all in family violence incidents involved physical force through the use of hands, feet or fists.
10.9% of all incidents involved no weapons (Note: In Texas, the Texas Family Violence law considers the use of threats and intimidation to be serious enough to be included as an act of family violence).
3.6% of all incidents involved knives or cutting instruments.
2.2% of all family violence incidents involved guns.
1.8% involved blunt objects
In the state of Texas, weapons can include motor vehicles, poison, explosives, fire, drugs and other various weapons. As such, 5% of all incidents involved “other weapons”.

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