SearchSystems Editorial

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.

About this guide

Tarrant County, Texas, has about 2.2 million residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Tarrant County Sheriff's Office, 32 city agencies and 15 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 Tarrant 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: Tarrant County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.

Who Makes Arrests in Tarrant County

The Tarrant County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Tarrant County. It reported 980 arrests for 2025.

Arrests inside 32 of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported, the largest twelve first; the rest are named in the cities section below:

  • Fort Worth, 1,008,106 residents: 16,679 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Arlington, 403,672 residents: 11,000 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Mansfield, 80,803 residents: 1,155 arrests reported for 2025.
  • North Richland Hills, 71,436 residents: 1,442 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Euless, 60,010 residents: 1,347 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Grapevine, 51,320 residents: 1,833 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Bedford, 48,728 residents: 1,246 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Keller, 46,643 residents: 618 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Haltom City, 45,786 residents: 1,200 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Hurst, 39,500 residents: 840 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Southlake, 31,500 residents: 425 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Saginaw, 26,116 residents: 542 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 Roanoke Police Department, the Flower Mound Police Department, the Trophy Club Police Department and two more are each listed by the FBI across several counties including Tarrant County, so their arrests are not broken out for Tarrant County here.

The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Tarrant County: the White Settlement Independent School District, the Tarrant County Constable's Precincts 1 and 3, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, the Tarrant County Hospital District and five more (other); Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, the University of Texas at Arlington, Texas Christian University, the Tarrant County College District and one more (campus police).

How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Tarrant County

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.

  • Fort Worth: 16,679 for 2025, 15,692 for 2024, 15,500 for 2023, 13,443 for 2022, 14,270 for 2021 and 13,236 for 2020.
  • Arlington: 11,000 for 2025, 10,412 for 2024, 9,999 for 2023, 9,883 for 2022, 9,114 for 2021 and 9,433 for 2020.
  • Grapevine: 1,833 for 2025, 1,389 for 2024, 1,071 for 2023, 879 for 2022, 1,042 for 2021 and 1,314 for 2020.
  • North Richland Hills: 1,442 for 2025, 1,562 for 2024, 1,334 for 2023, 1,559 for 2022, 1,901 for 2021 and 1,790 for 2020.
  • Euless: 1,347 for 2025, 1,164 for 2024, 1,241 for 2023, 1,282 for 2022, 1,078 for 2021 and 3,183 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
  • Bedford: 1,246 for 2025, 1,286 for 2024, 1,737 for 2023, 1,943 for 2022, 1,775 for 2021 and 1,712 for 2020.
  • Haltom City: 1,200 for 2025, 698 for 2023, 1,534 for 2021, 1,695 for 2020 and 1,949 for 2019; 2022 and 2024 are missing months.
  • Mansfield: 1,155 for 2025, 1,049 for 2024, 1,028 for 2023, 923 for 2022, 953 for 2021 and 896 for 2020.
  • Tarrant County Sheriff's Office: 980 for 2025, 1,361 for 2024, 1,222 for 2023, 1,123 for 2022, 884 for 2021 and 974 for 2020.
  • Hurst: 840 for 2025, 1,088 for 2024, 1,426 for 2023, 1,242 for 2022, 1,408 for 2021 and 1,343 for 2020.
  • Benbrook: 756 for 2025, 868 for 2024, 895 for 2023, 563 for 2022, 528 for 2021 and 850 for 2020.
  • Watauga: 637 for 2025, 675 for 2023, 780 for 2022, 899 for 2021, 723 for 2020 and 894 for 2019; 2024 is missing months.

Together, the 33 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 44,043 arrests that year. The 31 of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 42,206 in 2025 against 41,014 in 2024, up 2.9 percent.

Through August 2026, the 28 agencies with every month so far on file reported 29,562 arrests, against 28,488 in the same months of 2025.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Tarrant County Are Held

A person kept in custody after an arrest in Tarrant County 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 4,480 people on an average day, up from about 4,010 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 5,015 beds, and it is running at 89 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 Tarrant County Sheriff's Office at tarrantcountytx.gov/en/sheriff/detention-bureau/inmate-search.html (page title: Inmate Search), 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 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 Tarrant County

An arrest in Tarrant County can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Tarrant County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Tarrant County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at tarrantcountytx.gov/en/justice-of-the-peace-courts/justice-5/civil-...); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at tarrantcountytx.gov/en/criminal-district-attorney/criminal-division..., phone 817-884-1400).

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 Tarrant County

The report of an arrest is released by the agency that made it; the jail and the court hold their own records of the same event, but not the report. 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 Tarrant County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
  • An arrest in Fort Worth, Arlington, Mansfield, North Richland Hills, Euless, Grapevine 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 White Settlement Independent School District, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary or the University of Texas at Arlington: the records office of the agency involved.
  • A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 817-884-1400, handles discovery for pending cases.
  • The court file of a case that was filed: the Tarrant County District Court, through the court records page at tarrantcountytx.gov.
  • Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.

Cities in Tarrant County: Who Reports the Arrests

The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for 32 of the 35 cities in Tarrant County: the twelve named above and Colleyville, Benbrook, Watauga, Crowley, White Settlement, Azle, Forest Hill, Kennedale, Richland Hills, River Oaks, Everman, Sansom Park, Lake Worth, Westworth Village, Pelican Bay, Pantego, Blue Mound, Dalworthington Gardens, Lakeside and Westover Hills. Haslet, Edgecliff Village and Westlake 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 Tarrant County District Court.

SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Tarrant 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 Tarrant County each year?

Fort Worth reported 16,679 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the 33 agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 44,043 between them.

How do I find out if someone is in jail in Tarrant County?

Look on the custody page of the Tarrant County Sheriff's Office at tarrantcountytx.gov. It covers people booked into the county jail.

Where are people arrested in Tarrant County booked?

Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Tarrant County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.

Are arrest records public in Tarrant 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 Tarrant County?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Tarrant 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 Tarrant 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.