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Fair Oaks Ranch

City in Bexar County, Kendall County, Comal County, 10,728 people.

Police

Sheriffs and county police in its counties: Bexar County Sheriff's Office, Comal County Sheriff's Office, Kendall County Sheriff's Office.

A department or FBI code is the place's own when its name is the place's and its FBI population fits the place's people (decisions city-or-town-is-its-police-department, left-out-code-is-its-place). Agencies: FBI NIBRS master file 2025 batch headers; names from the FBI agency list, pulled 2026-09-29.

Where it sits

People
10,728
Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024

How a case moves here

Fair Oaks Ranch follows Texas law on arrests, release, and courts; the full set covers prosecutors, defense, and jails too.

Who decides release first

A magistrate sets bail first, at the hearing that must follow arrest. Magistrates include judges of every level, justices of the peace, and, in some counties, appointed criminal law magistrates. In misdemeanors, a sheriff, officer, or licensed jailer may take bail, and many counties use bond schedules signed by judges.

Tex. Code Crim. Proc. arts. 17.027, 17.20 to 17.22Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 15.17
Time to see a judge

A person arrested must be taken before a magistrate without unnecessary delay and no later than 48 hours after arrest. The magistrate gives the warnings, sets bail, and can appoint a lawyer. The hearing may be held by video.

Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 15.17(a)
Money bail

Texas allows money bail. Since voters approved Proposition 3 in November 2025, a judge must deny bail for murder, aggravated assault, aggravated robbery, aggravated sexual assault, and several other felonies when the state proves flight risk or danger at a hearing, and must explain in writing any grant of bail on those charges.

Tex. Const. art. I, secs. 11 to 11dTex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 17.15

Read from the statutes and court rules cited, 2026-09-30. Prop 3 (2025) changed when bail must be denied, not whether money bail exists. Appointed criminal law magistrates exist only in counties with an enabling section in Gov't Code ch. 54, such as Harris, Dallas, Bexar, and Travis. Counts of public defender offices change often; check TIDC before quoting a number.

Crime

Offenses reported by Fair Oaks Ranch Police Department, Fair Oaks Ranch's own department. The county sheriff and state police may answer calls here too; their offenses are on their own pages.

The crime index

Crime index offenses reported by Fair Oaks Ranch Police Department, 2021 to 2025
Offense20212022202320242025Per 100kTexas
Violent crime51142Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.411
Murder1Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.6.1
Rape16Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.53
RobberyToo few for a rate: the count is under 20.67
Aggravated assault4541Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.285
Property crime571269975677332,123
Burglary738341424202303
Larceny48765050344461,493
Motor vehicle theft2121511985327
ArsonToo few for a rate: the count is under 20.9.2

Outside the crime index

Offenses outside the crime index reported by Fair Oaks Ranch Police Department, 2021 to 2025
Offense20212022202320242025Per 100kTexas
All offenses outside the crime index284307325134901,9702,904
Simple assault and intimidation19352726212211,172
Vandalism815101711105534
Fraud5527241414232312
Drug abuse violations18921424971351,310602
Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc.1011125473109
Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing11Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.17
Forgery and counterfeiting1314Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.64
Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution)11Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.27
Other Group A offenses13Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.48

Offenses Fair Oaks Ranch Police Department reported to the FBI in incident detail (NIBRS), each year, the second table by the arrest class each offense falls in. Per 100k: offenses per 100,000 people the department polices, 2021 to 2025 added together, beside Texas's rate over the same years. – means too few for a rate: the count is under 20.

Source: FBI NIBRS national master files, each agency's offenses and the FBI's population for it. Texas: the crime index: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, CrimeDB's chosen value per year (the state page's figures); outside it: FBI NIBRS, agencies that sent incident detail.