New cases filed
New non-parking traffic misdemeanor cases reported during FY 2025.
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Texas Traffic Ticket Statistics: FY 2025 Court Data
Review FY 2025 Texas traffic-ticket court data from municipal and justice courts, including non-parking traffic misdemeanor cases, course dismissals, and deferred dispositions—then open the right city, cost, or violation resource.
Statewide snapshot
FY 2025 traffic case activity reported by Texas courts
These combined totals use the non-parking traffic-misdemeanor columns in the official municipal- and justice-court activity reports. Filed and disposed totals are separate annual measurements, not one group moving through a funnel.
Cases disposed
Non-parking traffic misdemeanor cases with a reported disposition during FY 2025.
Source 2Source 3 for Cases disposedCourse dismissals
Traffic cases reported dismissed after a driver safety course.
Source 2Source 3 for Course dismissalsDeferred dismissals
Traffic cases reported dismissed after deferred disposition.
Source 2Source 3 for Deferred dismissalsNon-parking traffic misdemeanors represented about 80.7% of all new criminal cases reported by municipal and justice courts in these FY 2025 activity tables. This percentage is calculated from the official totals.
FY 2025 court comparison
Official FY 2025 activity-detail fields
| Metric | Municipal courts | Justice courts | Combined |
|---|---|---|---|
| New non-parking traffic cases filed | 2,848,971 | 1,396,203 | 4,245,174 |
| Non-parking traffic cases disposed | 2,778,008 | 1,254,543 | 4,032,551 |
| Dismissed after driver safety course | 223,494 | 81,447 | 304,941 |
| Dismissed after deferred disposition | 384,225 | 140,991 | 525,216 |
| Reporting rate | 88.7% | 93.7% | Different reporting systems |
Read the numbers correctly
Four terms that prevent misleading comparisons
Case filed
A new court case reported during the fiscal year. It is not necessarily a count of every citation an officer issued.
Traffic citationCase disposed
A case with a reported outcome during the year. It may have been filed in the same year or an earlier year.
Final dispositionCourse dismissal
A reported compliance dismissal after a driver safety course. The individual court’s order and documentation requirements still control.
Course dismissalDeferred disposition
A court process involving conditions and a deferral period. It is different from taking defensive driving for dismissal.
Deferred dispositionTwo court systems
Municipal courts and justice courts reported different shares of the statewide activity
The court named on the citation controls the case. These statewide totals are useful context, but they do not replace that court’s current instructions.
Municipal courts
88.7% reportingOften handle city-filed fine-only cases and municipal ordinance matters.
- New traffic cases
- 2,848,971
- Course dismissals
- 223,494
- Deferred dismissals
- 384,225
Justice courts
93.7% reportingJustice-of-the-peace courts operate at the county precinct level and also report traffic misdemeanor activity.
- New traffic cases
- 1,396,203
- Course dismissals
- 81,447
- Deferred dismissals
- 140,991
Data boundaries
Ticket cases, ticket prices, and crash statistics are not the same thing
Court cases are not identical to citations issued
OCA publishes case activity submitted by courts. A roadside citation can produce a court case, but the statewide report is not a complete officer-issued citation count.
Case totals do not reveal one universal ticket price
Fine amounts, court costs, local charges, the alleged violation, and the case outcome can change what a driver owes. Use the dedicated cost pages for that question.
Crash data measure safety events, not court filings
TxDOT crash reports answer different questions. They should not be combined with court-case totals as though they describe the same population.
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Source and methodology
How we use Texas court data
The page uses official statewide court-activity reports and labels important limitations instead of presenting estimates as official totals.
Reporting period
Texas court fiscal year 2025 covers September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2025.
Reporting completeness
The municipal report shows an 88.7% reporting rate; the justice-court report shows 93.7%. The figures are reported totals, not a claim of complete statewide reporting.
Cases versus citations
The reports count court cases. They do not claim to list every roadside citation issued in Texas.
Filed versus disposed
The cases disposed during FY 2025 are not necessarily the same cases filed during FY 2025.
City pages
The future city rebuild will label each local metric according to the exact official field used and will distinguish official figures from estimates.
Update standard
This hub should be reviewed when OCA publishes the next annual statistical supplement or materially revises the source data.
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