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Houston County Sheriff's Office

County agency in Houston, Texas, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2018.

ORI
TX1130000
Type
County
County
Houston
State
Texas (TX)
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2018-01-01
Location
31.3183, -95.4604

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 14,248.

23Sworn officers
34Civilian staff
4.00Employees per 1,000 people
14,248Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
2025233414,2484.00
2024263214,5403.99
2023212814,1553.46
2022222714,6183.35
2021223114,8083.58
2020222915,0493.39
2019212915,0573.32
2018202814,9763.21
2017202814,6893.27
2016212714,6573.27
2015202814,6783.27
2014311414,9233.02

Officer and civilian counts are full-time employees as filed by the agency in its annual return. A dash means the agency did not report that figure for that year — it does not mean zero.

Deaths during encounters with this agency

2 people have died during an encounter with Houston County Sheriff's Office between 2004 and 2007, according to Mapping Police Violence.

2Deaths recorded
14.04Per 100,000 people policed
2004–2007Period covered
Recorded causeDeaths
Gunshot2

What this figure is and is not. It counts deaths recorded as occurring during an encounter with this agency. It is not a finding of wrongdoing, and a death being recorded here says nothing about whether it was lawful. Many involve armed confrontations; some involve none. Police Census publishes counts only and does not name the people who died.

These records are compiled from news reports and public records by Mapping Police Violence, an independent research organisation — they are not official statistics, and no federal database records this comprehensively. Used with permission.

Also policing Houston

Jurisdictions overlap. These agencies are also recorded against the same county, so a single address may be covered by more than one of them.

Source

Agency identity, type, jurisdiction, coordinates and reporting status are as published by the FBI Crime Data Explorer, agency record TX1130000. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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