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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Alamo, TX

Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Alamo, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.

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City Safety Score 40/100 Grade C Modeled estimate · 0 to 100, higher is safer
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Is Alamo, TX safe?

Alamo, Texas has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 40 out of 100, grade C, below the Texas statewide score of 53. An estimated 32% of its residents live in neighborhoods graded A or B, compared with 45% statewide. Safety Scores are modeled estimates, not official crime rates.

Safety Score
40 / 100
Residents in A or B neighborhoods
32%
Residents in D or F neighborhoods
50%
Scored neighborhoods
26

How Alamo compares

Alamo scores 13 points below the Texas statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.

Alamo lies in Hidalgo County, which has a county Safety Score of 5, grade F.

County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Alamo.

Neighborhoods inside Alamo

26 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Alamo, 15 of them mostly inside it. Among those 15, the lowest scores 0, the highest 77, and the middle 80% range from 5 to 70.

Safety Score, 0–100 · shaded band: 10th–90th percentiles · whiskers: lowest and highest

Alamo

A 1% · B 32% · C 18% · D 15% · F 35%

Texas

A 25% · B 20% · C 20% · D 19% · F 16%

Estimated share of residents living in neighborhoods of each grade, in Alamo and across Texas.

ZIP codes where Alamo residents live

Nearly all of Alamo's estimated residents live in ZIP 78516 (Safety Score 38, grade D). An estimated 50% of that ZIP's residents live outside Alamo, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 78516 profile.

Closest cities in Texas

  1. San Juan Safety Score 52 · grade C · 2.4 miles
  2. Donna Safety Score 22 · grade D · 4.1 miles
  3. Pharr Safety Score 42 · grade C · 4.5 miles
  4. Weslaco Safety Score 48 · grade C · 8.1 miles
  5. McAllen Safety Score 58 · grade C · 8.3 miles

Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.

About Alamo

Alamo has an estimated 20,694 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 7.5 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 26 scored Census block groups that lie at least partly within those limits.

How this page is built

ZIP codes are listed by the estimated share of the city's residents who live in them, from 2020 Census block-group population spread evenly over each block group's land. The city score is not an average of ZIP scores.

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Scores as of

Safety Scores compare areas on a 0–100 scale; higher is safer. Scores are modeled estimates, not official crime rates or reported incident counts.

City scores combine the scored neighborhoods that lie at least partly within city limits, weighted by their estimated residents inside the limits. They are not an average of the ZIP scores listed for a city.

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