Texas Marijuana Arrest Statistics: 2025 Data & County Guide

Texas DPS CCH tables contain 41,701 marijuana-coded arrest records for 2025, including 41,049 possession-coded records. Start with the statewide figures, then follow the question you want to answer.

How many marijuana arrest records did Texas report in 2025?

The Ledger sums 41,701 marijuana-coded arrest records from matching rows for 250 of 254 counties in the Texas DPS CCH workbook. 98.4% were classified as possession. This is not a unique-person count.

Here, “marijuana arrests” is search shorthand for marijuana-coded arrest records in Texas DPS Computerized Criminal History (CCH) tables. These aggregates do not identify unique people or unique arrest events, establish guilt, or measure cannabis use. The arrest year and source publication date are different: this analysis covers 2023, 2024, 2025, using the January 13, 2026 workbook.

Choose your question

What happened in my county?: Compare reported totals and calculated rates, then open any county’s three-year record.
How much of the total was possession?: See the offense definition, annual possession share, and county examples.
Are marijuana arrest records increasing or decreasing?: Read the latest annual change alongside the complete available series.
Which counties have the highest rates?: Compare eligible counties; learn why small populations need separate treatment.
How do major Texas counties compare?: Read Harris, Dallas, Tarrant, Bexar, and Travis together without confusing county and city data.
Why do published statewide totals disagree?: Understand why DPS CCH records and FBI-derived reporting are not interchangeable.

The statewide series

Texas DPS CCH records by arrest year
Year	All marijuana-coded records	Possession-coded records	Possession share	Counties with rows
2023	39,550	38,833	98.2%	250
2024	39,791	39,185	98.5%	250
2025	41,701	41,049	98.4%	250

What a rate adds

The 2025 aggregate rate is 131.5 records per 100,000 residents. The denominator sums population estimates for counties with matching rows, rather than assigning zero records to missing counties. Rates help compare differently sized populations, but the records may involve nonresidents.

For the full latest-year table, open 2025 annual county data. For count-only comparisons, use total-record rankings.

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Sources, dates and corrections

Source: Texas DPS Computerized Criminal History county/offense workbook, published January 13, 2026; arrest years 2023, 2024, 2025. Population: U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 county estimates. Dataset assembled 2026-09-02; page reviewed 2026-09-15.

Counts represent marijuana-coded arrest records, not necessarily unique people or arrest events. Missing source rows remain distinct from reported zero counts. Read definitions and limitations. Download the normalized CSV.

Created by Nick French and maintained by StackSwap. Independent of Texas DPS and the Census Bureau. Request a correction with the page, year, source row and proposed correction. Reports are checked against the original files before published figures change.