How the city has changed over 35 years: how many people live here, how many police officers there are, how much crime gets reported, and how much money comes in. Every figure comes from the U.S. Census Bureau, the FBI, or the Texas Comptroller — and links to its source. Summaries are AI-generated from those verified figures: check them against the sources.
Figures Donna's own police department reports to the FBI. A year the department didn't fully report stays blank — never guessed. The per-1,000-residents rates are computed by us: FBI crime counts divided by Census population.
AI summary
Violent crimes reported to Donna police rose from 101 in 1990 to 321 in 2025, a change of +220 (+218%). The rate per 1,000 residents increased from 7.6 to 19.2 over the same period. Property crimes fell slightly, with total incidents dropping from 778 in 1990 to 759 in 2025, a change of -19 (-2%). The property‑crime rate per 1,000 residents went down from 58.2 in 1990 to 45.5 in 2025. The number of sworn officers grew from 16 in 1990 to 35 in 2025, a change of +19 (+119%), and reached a peak of 39 in 2024.
1993Violent crimes were at their lowest in 1993 with 42 incidents.
2025Violent crimes hit a high of 321 in 2025, the most recent peak.
2004Property crimes peaked at 1,337 incidents in 2004.
2021Property crimes fell to their lowest level of 405 incidents in 2021.
2024The police department had its highest sworn officer count of 39 in 2024.
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Sworn police officers
Reported by the department to the FBI (count as of Oct 31). Gaps in the line are years the department didn't report.
· FBI Crime Data Explorer
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
Computed by us: crimes reported to the FBI ÷ Census population × 1,000. The original counts are in the table below.
Property crimes per 1,000 residents
Burglary, vehicle theft, larceny. Same computation as above.
In 2013 the city received $1,963,167 in state sales‑tax allocations. By 2025 that amount had risen to $7,872,970. The increase from 2013 to 2025 was $5,909,803, or 301 %. The first time the payment reached $5 million was in 2021. The highest payment recorded was in 2025 and the lowest was in 2013.
2013In 2013 the state paid the city $1,963,167, the lowest amount in the record.
20212021 marked the first year the payment reached $5,296,125, crossing the $5 million threshold.
2022In 2022 the allocation rose to $6,355,967.
2025The highest payment recorded was in 2025, when the city received $7,872,970.
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Sales tax paid to the city, by year
Monthly allocation payments from the Texas Comptroller to the City of Donna, summed per calendar year. The online public record starts in 2013.
Historical property tax rates and year-by-year city employee counts don't exist in any machine-readable public record reaching back to 1990. When the city or the state publishes them, they'll appear here. We don't show figures we can't link to a source — that's how we work.