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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Balch Springs, TX
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Balch Springs, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Balch Springs. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Balch Springs, TX safe?
Balch Springs, Texas has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 63 out of 100, grade B, above the Texas statewide score of 53. An estimated 61% 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
- 63 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 61%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 6%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 20
How Balch Springs compares
Balch Springs scores 10 points above the Texas statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Balch Springs lies in Dallas County, which has a county Safety Score of 33, grade D.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Balch Springs.
Neighborhoods inside Balch Springs
20 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Balch Springs, 13 of them mostly inside it. Among those 13, the lowest scores 13, the highest 92, and the middle 80% range from 46 to 89.
ZIP codes where Balch Springs residents live
Listed by the estimated share of Balch Springs's residents who live in each ZIP code. A ZIP score covers the whole ZIP, including any part outside the city.
Higher scores indicate safer modeled conditions. Scored areas are Census block groups, not a coverage percentage.
Closest cities in Texas
- Mesquite Safety Score 57 · grade C · 4.2 miles
- Seagoville Safety Score 60 · grade B · 5.3 miles
- Forney Safety Score 61 · grade B · 9.7 miles
- Dallas Safety Score 39 · grade D · 12 miles
- Heath Safety Score 64 · grade B · 12 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Balch Springs
Balch Springs has an estimated 27,307 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 9 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 20 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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