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.
Silsbee, Texas, in Hardin County, has about 6,700 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 Hardin 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: Silsbee public records, Hardin County arrest records, Texas arrest records and Texas inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Silsbee
The FBI lists Silsbee with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Silsbee Police Department. It reported 341 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 Hardin County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 655 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Hardin County: the Hardin County Constable's Precincts 1, 2 and 4, the Silsbee Independent School District, the Kountze Independent School District and the West Hardin Independent School District (other).
How Many Arrests Silsbee Reports
Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them 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.
- Silsbee: 341 for 2025, 415 for 2024, 356 for 2023, 417 for 2022, 436 for 2021 and 331 for 2020.
Silsbee's 341 arrests in 2025 were down 18 percent from 415 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Silsbee reported 183 arrests, against 232 in the same months of 2025.
Across Hardin County, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,597 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Silsbee Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Silsbee and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.
So far in 2026 the jail has held about 180 people on an average day, up from about 160 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 196 beds, and it is running at 90 percent of it. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Hardin County Sheriff's Office at hardincountysheriff.com/jail-info (page title: JAIL INFO), phone 409-246-5100, 300 West Monroe Street - Kountze, TX 77625, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
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 Silsbee
An arrest in Silsbee can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Hardin County District Court, kept by the District Clerk for district court cases and the County Clerk for county court cases, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date; the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at hardincountytx.gov/page/DistrictAttorney, phone 409-246-5160).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at courtrecord.net/hardin-county-tx-courts (page title: Hardin County Court Records for Free (Hardin County, TX)), phone 409-246-5120, belongs to a lower court, not to the Hardin County District Court.
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 Silsbee
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 Silsbee police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at cityofsilsbee.com/city-services/police-department (page title: Police Department | City of Silsbee Texas), phone (409) 385-3714, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Hardin County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 409-246-5100.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 409-246-5160, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Hardin County District Court it is kept by the District Clerk for district court cases and the County Clerk for county court cases. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at courtrecord.net/hardin-county-tx-courts, phone 409-246-5120, is a lower court's.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at hcesd2.com/open-records-request (page title: Open Records Request | Hardin County ESD #2).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
The Hardin County guide covers every agency in the county: Hardin County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Silsbee each year?
Silsbee reported 341 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Silsbee?
Ask the Hardin County Sheriff's Office at 409-246-5100; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at hardincountysheriff.com/jail-info.
Where are people arrested in Silsbee booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Hardin County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Silsbee?
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 Silsbee?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Silsbee police for its own arrests, the Hardin 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 hcesd2.com/open-records-request.
Is this the official Silsbee 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.