Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. 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 on September 23, 2026.
Brazoria County, Texas, has about 413,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Brazoria County Sheriff's Office, 20 city agencies and 12 campus, state or other agencies. An arrest 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 Brazoria County District Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Brazoria County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Brazoria County
The Brazoria County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Brazoria County. It reported 1,746 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists 20 cities in Brazoria County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported, the largest twelve first; the rest are named in the cities section below:
- Pearland, 129,620 residents: 3,646 arrests reported for 2025.
- Alvin, 29,869 residents: 973 arrests reported for 2024.
- Lake Jackson, 28,158 residents: 529 arrests reported for 2025.
- Angleton, 20,979 residents: 430 arrests reported for 2025.
- Manvel, 19,309 residents: 267 arrests reported for 2025.
- Iowa Colony, 17,240 residents: 304 arrests reported for 2025.
- Clute, 10,893 residents: 572 arrests reported for 2025.
- Freeport, 10,635 residents: 193 arrests reported for 2025.
- Richwood, 4,835 residents: 17 arrests reported for 2025.
- West Columbia, 3,649 residents: 39 arrests reported for 2025.
- Sweeny, 3,602 residents: 54 arrests reported for 2025.
- Brazoria, 2,898 residents: 33 arrests reported for 2025.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Brazoria County: the Brazoria County Constable's Precincts 1, 2, 3 and 4, the Alvin Independent School District, the Angleton Independent School District, the Columbia-Brazoria Independent School District and three more (other); Brazosport College and Alvin Community College (campus police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Brazoria County
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.
- Pearland: 3,646 for 2025, 3,957 for 2024, 4,026 for 2023, 3,971 for 2022, 3,371 for 2021 and 2,892 for 2020.
- Brazoria County Sheriff's Office: 1,746 for 2025, 1,582 for 2024, 1,593 for 2023, 1,154 for 2022, 1,516 for 2020 and 1,668 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Clute: 572 for 2025, 472 for 2024, 475 for 2023, 414 for 2022, 294 for 2021 and 315 for 2020.
- Lake Jackson: 529 for 2025, 798 for 2023, 842 for 2022, 915 for 2021 and 1,462 for 2019; 2020 and 2024 are missing months.
- Angleton: 430 for 2025, 452 for 2024, 510 for 2023, 505 for 2022, 509 for 2021 and 901 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Iowa Colony: 304 for 2025, 213 for 2024 and 112 for 2023.
- Manvel: 267 for 2025, 303 for 2024, 369 for 2023, 407 for 2022 and 214 for 2021.
- Freeport: 193 for 2025, 274 for 2024, 328 for 2023, 263 for 2022, 218 for 2021 and 229 for 2020.
- Sweeny: 54 for 2025, 94 for 2024, 106 for 2023, 82 for 2022, 28 for 2021 and 47 for 2020.
- West Columbia: 39 for 2025, 40 for 2024, 63 for 2023, 56 for 2022, 71 for 2021 and 50 for 2020.
- Brazoria: 33 for 2025, 31 for 2024, 32 for 2023, 48 for 2022, 50 for 2021 and 44 for 2020.
- Oyster Creek: 20 for 2025, 27 for 2024, 52 for 2023, 98 for 2022, 107 for 2021 and 80 for 2020.
Together, the 18 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 7,863 arrests that year. The 16 of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 7,332 in 2025 against 7,483 in 2024, down 2 percent.
Through August 2026, the 16 agencies with every month so far on file reported 5,071 arrests, against 5,189 in the same months of 2025.
Alvin, Jones Creek and Hillcrest Village reported only part of 2025 (11 months, 7 months and 10 months) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Brazoria County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Brazoria County 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 960 people on an average day, up from about 830 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 1,170 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 jail page of the Brazoria County Sheriff's Office at brazoriacountytx.gov/departments/sheriff-s-office/detention-center (page title: Detention Center | Brazoria County, TX), phone (979)864-2336, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, whose inmate locator is at inmate.tdcj.texas.gov/InmateSearch/start.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Brazoria County
Whether someone was arrested in Brazoria County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Brazoria County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at brazoriacountyclerktx.gov/departments/criminal/search-and-request-c...); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at brazoriacountytx.gov/departments/district-attorney).
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 Brazoria County
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 Brazoria County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (979)864-2336.
- An arrest in Pearland, Alvin, Lake Jackson, Angleton, Manvel, Iowa Colony or another of the cities listed above: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- An arrest by the Brazoria County Constable's Precincts 1, 2, 3 and 4, Brazosport College or Alvin Community College: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Brazoria County District Court, through the court records page at brazoriacountyclerktx.gov.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
Cities in Brazoria County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for 20 of the 24 cities in Brazoria County: the twelve named above and Jones Creek, Danbury, Brookside Village, Oyster Creek, Holiday Lakes, Surfside Beach, Hillcrest Village and Liverpool. Bailey's Prairie, Sandy Point, Bonney and Quintana have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Brazoria County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Brazoria County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Brazoria County each year?
Pearland reported 3,646 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the 18 agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 7,863 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Brazoria County?
Ask the Brazoria County Sheriff's Office at (979)864-2336; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at brazoriacountytx.gov.
Where are people arrested in Brazoria County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Brazoria County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Brazoria County?
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 Brazoria County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Brazoria County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Texas Public Information Act the answer is due within 10 business days.
Is this the official Brazoria County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.