Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2025. The jail figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 23, 2026 and September 26, 2026.
Commerce, Texas, in Hunt County, has about 9,800 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the District Attorney files charges, a case in the Hunt County District Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Commerce public records, Hunt County arrest records, Texas arrest records and Texas inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Commerce
The FBI lists Commerce with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Commerce Police Department. It reported 244 arrests for 2025. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
Outside the city, the Hunt County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 206 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Hunt County: the Lone Oak Independent School District, the Celeste Independent School District, the Hunt County Constable's Precincts 1, 2, 3 and 4, the Quinlan Independent School District and three more (other); East Texas A&M University (campus police).
How Many Arrests Commerce Reports
The FBI publishes every agency's monthly arrest counts on the Crime Data Explorer. These are the full-year totals, all offenses, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026; a year with months missing or not reported is left out.
- Commerce: 244 for 2025, 279 for 2024, 195 for 2023, 302 for 2022, 141 for 2021 and 235 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
Commerce's 244 arrests in 2025 were down 13 percent from 279 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Commerce reported 155 arrests, against 163 in the same months of 2025.
Across Hunt County, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,476 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Commerce Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Commerce is held at the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.
So far in 2026 the jail has held about 280 people on an average day, up from about 250 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 345 beds, and it is running at 82 percent of it. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Hunt County Sheriff's Office at apps.huntcounty.net/jail (page title: Hunt County Sheriff Booking), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Texas Department of Criminal Justice lists its inmates at inmate.tdcj.texas.gov/InmateSearch/start.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Commerce
An arrest in Commerce can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Hunt County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at huntcounty.net/page/districtattorney, phone (903) 408-4180).
Texas is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the Conviction Database search lets anyone look up convictions and deferred adjudications by name, for $3 a search, through the Texas Department of Public Safety. That record shows what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Commerce
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Texas Public Information Act the agency must answer within 10 business days, and it may charge the copy rates set by the Attorney General, plus labor for large requests.
- An arrest by the Commerce police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at commercetx.org/police/page/open-records-request-freedom-information... (page title: Open Records Request | Freedom of Information Act | Commerce TX), phone (903) 886-1139, 1139 Address 1103 Sycamore Street Commerce, TX 75428, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Hunt County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (903) 408-4180, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at huntcounty.net/page/countyclerkrequests (page title: County Clerk Requests | Hunt County, Texas).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
The Hunt County guide covers every agency in the county: Hunt County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Commerce each year?
Commerce reported 244 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Commerce?
Look on the custody page of the Hunt County Sheriff's Office at apps.huntcounty.net/jail. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Commerce booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Hunt County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Commerce?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Texas Department of Public Safety: the Conviction Database search lets anyone look up convictions and deferred adjudications by name, for $3. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Texas Public Information Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Commerce?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Commerce police for its own arrests, the Hunt County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Texas Public Information Act the answer is due within 10 business days; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at huntcounty.net/page/countyclerkrequests.
Is this the official Commerce website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.