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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Alton, TX
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Alton, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Alton. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Alton, TX safe?
Alton, Texas has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 51 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
- 51 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 32%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 9%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 13
How Alton compares
Alton scores 2 points below the Texas statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Alton 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 Alton.
Neighborhoods inside Alton
13 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Alton, 8 of them mostly inside it. Among those 8, the lowest scores 21, the highest 66, and the middle 80% range from 37 to 66.
ZIP codes where Alton residents live
Nearly all of Alton's estimated residents live in ZIP 78573 (Safety Score 60, grade B). An estimated 63% of that ZIP's residents live outside Alton, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 78573 profile.
Closest cities in Texas
- Mission Safety Score 57 · grade C · 5.0 miles
- McAllen Safety Score 58 · grade C · 5.7 miles
- Palmview Safety Score 30 · grade D · 6.1 miles
- Edinburg Safety Score 44 · grade C · 8.5 miles
- Pharr Safety Score 42 · grade C · 10 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Alton
Alton has an estimated 22,907 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 7.3 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 13 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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