Is Fort Worth safe in 2026? A 13.8 percent drop is not a sensor on your side door
The search is “is Fort Worth safe 2026,” “Fort Worth crime rate,” and “Fort Worth burglary.” The honest answer uses Fort Worth Police citywide figures, not a neighborhood rumor and not a heat map we do not have. The City of Fort Worth / FWPD February 2026 fourth-quarter report, as covered by the Star-Telegram on February 6, 2026, said overall offenses in 2025 were 48,016 versus 55,692 in 2024 — down 13.8 percent. Property crime was down 17 percent. Homicides were 81, up 8 percent versus 2024. Chief Eddie Garcia, in 2026, had first-quarter 2026 overall crime down 8 percent year over year, per WFAA. A better overall year is good news. It is not a person watching your slider while you sit in a Northwest ISD pickup line.
Home Security Systems Fort Worth does not scare-sell those figures. We cite FWPD and then sell the product: professionally installed sensors, optional cameras, ADT 24/7, cellular backup when Oncor is dark. Call (817) 745-6007 with the ZIP. SafeStreets is the ADT Authorized Provider that installs. ADT monitors 24/7. This site is not ADT corporate. We do not invent neighborhood crime rates. We do not print a Fairmount number, a Tanglewood number, or an Alliance number we do not have. Citywide is citywide. Occupancy is still occupancy. Empty weekday houses still sit. The official Fort Worth Security Pros lockup on homesecuritysystemsftworth.com is ADT Authorized Provider plus SafeStreets.
What FWPD and Chief Garcia actually put on the record
Treat the numbers as 2025 citywide FWPD, reported in the February 2026 4Q materials and in the Star-Telegram on February 6, 2026, not as a marketing brochure. Overall offenses 48,016 versus 55,692 — down 13.8 percent. Property crime down 17 percent. Homicides 81, up 8 percent versus 2024. Chief Eddie Garcia’s 2026 tenure includes a Q1 2026 overall drop of 8 percent year over year, per WFAA. We will not invent a burglary count we were not given. We will not invent a porch-theft total. We will not invent a neighborhood-by-neighborhood rate. Citywide figures mix downtown, the Near Southside, west Fort Worth, far north, and everything in between. A quieter overall year is not 24/7 monitoring.
Homicide totals are not how we quote a Fairmount stoop. Porch packages, leftover keypads, and school-day empties are. If you own a house, a tried door, a garage, and a box on the porch are the categories that match a door sensor, a garage contact, and an optional doorbell. We will not pretend 81 homicides means every ZIP is interchangeable. We also will not pretend a 13.8 percent drop is a reason to panic-buy twelve cameras — or a reason to skip the call. The homicide line went up. The overall line went down. Both can be true. Neither is a sensor.
This article is dated in 2026 so those 2025 figures can sit here honestly. We do not backdate them into a 2025 evergreen post and pretend the year had not closed. When FWPD publishes a later full year, that is a different sentence. Until then, the February 2026 4Q report, the Star-Telegram, Chief Garcia, and the WFAA Q1 2026 note are the citations we will stand behind.
How to read a better overall year without buying fear — or a skip
Citywide figures mix Fairmount, Tanglewood, Alliance, Stockyards, Wedgwood, and downtown. A neighbor on a porch is not an ADT operator. A year-over-year drop is not a lock. An 8 percent homicide increase is a serious public-safety sentence. It is not the product we sell. We sell a keypad as a door plan. Keep the product in its lane or you will hate it for the wrong reason.
Property crime being down 17 percent is closer to this product than homicide is. It is still citywide. It is still not your alley door. Porch theft is not a line we were given as a standalone total. Empty houses are closer still. Order monitoring for the hours you are gone. That is the whole use of this page.
We will not tell you Fort Worth is dangerous so you will buy a grid. We will not tell you Fort Worth is so improved the leftover keypad can wait. Both of those sentences are sales tricks. The honest sentence is occupancy. Break-ins and home security is the site’s crime page. This journal is the 2026 FWPD numbers without the scare.
What homeowners actually call the 817 line about
Not homicide maps. A box that walked off Magnolia. A leftover builder keypad in Alliance. A West 7th condo empty toward a downtown badge. A Tanglewood house empty toward drop-off. An Oncor outage that killed a Wi-Fi camera. Those calls did not wait for a crime map to turn red. They waited for the house to sit empty.
House versus condo, ZIP, cameras yes or no, leftover keypad. That is the 817 intake. We do not need a heat map. We need openings. A downtown 76102 condo with one door is not a Fairmount walk-out. A Keller ranch with a garage is not a City of Fort Worth CryWolf house by default. Architecture is not the quote. Occupancy is. We confirm the install window on the call. Same-day or next-day is common in this Texas–DFW territory when the calendar is open.
Promotional packages start at $53.99/mo* for ADT Secure+, then Smart+ $63.99*, Complete+ $74.99*. $99 install on many plans. Ask about the free alarm-system promo ($850 value) on qualifying monitoring*. Typically 36 months. Early termination fees apply. Credit approval applies. Offers are for homeowners. Crime being down does not change those numbers. Crime being down also does not make a leftover keypad live. The four numbers live on monitoring packages. What ADT costs in Fort Worth is the money.
City of Fort Worth is not Keller, Southlake, or Arlington
Downtown, Fairmount, Tanglewood, Arlington Heights, Stockyards, Wedgwood, and Alliance streets inside the city collect the citywide FWPD count when they sit inside the city limit. Weekday empties toward offices, FWISD bells, and I-35W. That is a door problem plus, sometimes, a porch problem. A lobby camera is the association’s. Your door is still your door. Porch packages is the Near Southside stoop article. Fairmount, Tanglewood, and Alliance are occupancy pages. We install in all of them when they sit in this window. We do not tell you one is “safe so skip it” or one is “unsafe so buy twelve cameras.” We tell you the house sits. Order the openings.
Independent cities — Keller, Southlake, Colleyville, Arlington, Euless, Hurst, Benbrook, White Settlement, Aledo, Weatherford — are not in FWPD’s citywide count the way a City of Fort Worth street is. Do not treat Chief Garcia’s 2025 figures as a Southlake grade. Confirm the desk from the ZIP. A quieter city still has school-day empties, leftover keypads, and porch boxes. A city ZIP with a better year still has sliders. Communities we serve is the map. Keller, Southlake, and Aledo still empty on a Tuesday.
Permits: Fort Worth Chapter 12 $50 CryWolf, permit required for response. Arlington $50. Keller $25. Southlake $35 residential. Colleyville no residential permit. Euless $30. Hurst $25 / $10 senior. Other halls confirm from the ZIP. Fort Worth versus Keller and Colleyville and Fort Worth versus Arlington are the desk articles. A permit is not a crime score.
Break-ins and empty hours match this product. Homicide totals do not.
A professionally installed system cannot promise your address is not in next year’s count. It can promise that an armed door opening becomes a call from ADT instead of a surprise when you get home from pickup. People skip monitoring in a “down year” and then order after the one incident on their street. That is a human pattern, not a Fort Worth-only pattern. The cheaper time to order is the week you move in, leftover keypad still on the wall, $99 install* still on the table, not the week after someone tried the slider.
Intown houses in Fairmount, Near Southside, Ryan Place, and Mistletoe Heights sit with a rear alley door nobody can see from Magnolia. Count that door. A doorbell on the front does not see it. Empty at 1 p.m. is still empty if the view of downtown is pretty. Occupancy, not a view. Alliance and Keller new-builds sit empty toward Northwest ISD or Keller ISD bells with a leftover keypad the builder called an alarm. It is not. Photograph the leftover.
Cellular backup is the other “down year” sentence. A better crime year does not stop ice from taking Oncor lines. A Wi-Fi camera still dies with the router. Ask it on the quote even if you called because of a news story. This metro is Oncor Electric Delivery for most houses we schedule, United Cooperative Services in some south Tarrant and Johnson pockets, CoServ on some north lots. Never CenterPoint. Oncor and cellular backup is the outage article. Uri 2021 is occupancy plus backup, not a scare.
Permits and false alarms are not a crime score
Chapter 12’s $50 and the 1-through-3 free false-alarm window exist so Fort Worth Police are not trained to ignore sirens. File CryWolf at (833) 281-8742 or [email protected]. Teach the code. A professionally installed system with a cancel path is how you stay in the free window. That has nothing to do with whether overall crime was down 13.8 percent. It has everything to do with whether the department will treat your trip as real.
Colleyville’s no residential permit does not mean Colleyville is “safer on this page.” It means different paper. Keller $25 does not mean Keller is half as serious. Dollars are desks, not grades. How to order still starts with the ZIP.
We name the office. You file it. Monitoring is ADT. This site is not the police department and is not ADT corporate.
What we will not do with FWPD’s 2025 numbers
We will not invent a Fairmount rate. We will not invent an eastside rate. We will not invent a westside rate. We will not rank FWISD campuses as stand-ins for safety. We will not tell you TCU’s neighborhood is exempt. We will not tell you a gated Mira Vista plat is exempt. HOA gates are not ADT. HOA camera rules is the covenant article. Indoor sensors still matter behind a gate.
Coverage is Tarrant plus close-in Parker. Confirm the ZIP. We schedule 33 Fort Worth ZIPs and the Tarrant and Parker addresses we actually quote. We will not take a form. We will not take a tenant on a homeowner promotion.
We will not hide the homicide increase to make the drop look cleaner. Eighty-one is 81. Up 8 percent is up. Overall down is also true. Property crime down 17 percent is also true. Adults can hold all of that and still arm a door.
School days, not night-time legends
The unsupervised hour that matches this product is 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., plus the commute on either side. FWISD, Northwest ISD, Eagle Mountain-Saginaw, Keller ISD, Carroll ISD, Grapevine-Colleyville, Mansfield ISD, Crowley ISD, Aledo ISD, Arlington ISD, HEB ISD, Birdville ISD, White Settlement ISD, and TCU class days empty houses. We will not rank them. School-day empties is the calendar. Weekday empty houses is I-35W, I-30, Alliance jobs, downtown, and DFW Airport. Night-time legends are not the quote.
A leftover keypad after a closing is the other honest call. Photograph it. Leftover keypads is hardware. A dark pad in a “down year” is still a dark pad.
House, condo, apartment or rental, larger-lot, extra unit, leftover keypad. Occupancy cards, not architecture. Say which one you hold on the 817 line.
What a 13.8 percent drop still leaves on a Tuesday
It leaves a Fairmount alley. It leaves an Alliance garage service door. It leaves a Tanglewood slider. It leaves a West 7th condo door on a shared hall. It leaves a Weatherford extra unit. It leaves Oncor ice. It leaves a porch box on Magnolia. Those are openings and hours. They were here when overall crime was higher. They are here now. Order the openings.
Smart+ at $63.99* is how you arm from a parking garage. Complete+ at $74.99* is how you get a clip. Secure+ at $53.99* is the door. Start with the door. How installation works is the truck. The Fort Worth security guide is occupancy cards and leftover pads.
Q1 2026 being down 8 percent year over year per WFAA is another good-news sentence. It is still not a sensor. If later 2026 months change the story, we will not pretend this article knew them. We cite what we have.
Order monitoring for the hours you are gone
Call (817) 745-6007 with the ZIP, the occupancy card, the door count, cameras yes or no, and a leftover photo if there is one. Hear the monthly, the $99 install on many plans, the city desk, and the date. SafeStreets installs. ADT monitors 24/7. Fort Worth Security Pros is the local voice. FWPD can have a better overall year. Your house can still sit empty from drop-off until the 6 p.m. garage. That empty is the product. The 13.8 percent is the citation. Do not confuse them. Communities we serve is the map. Then dial.