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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Bay City, TX
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Bay City, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Bay City. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Bay City, TX safe?
Bay City, Texas has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 45 out of 100, grade C, below the Texas statewide score of 53. An estimated 36% 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
- 45 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 36%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 45%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 21
How Bay City compares
Bay City scores 8 points below the Texas statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Bay City lies in Matagorda County, which has a county Safety Score of 34, grade D.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Bay City.
Neighborhoods inside Bay City
21 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Bay City, 14 of them mostly inside it. Among those 14, the lowest scores 1, the highest 83, and the middle 80% range from 5 to 83.
ZIP codes where Bay City residents live
Nearly all of Bay City's estimated residents live in ZIP 77414 (Safety Score 44, grade C). An estimated 42% of that ZIP's residents live outside Bay City, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 77414 profile.
Closest cities in Texas
- El Campo Safety Score 44 · grade C · 25 miles
- Lake Jackson Safety Score 45 · grade C · 32 miles
- Clute Safety Score 42 · grade C · 34 miles
- Angleton Safety Score 44 · grade C · 35 miles
- Freeport Safety Score 24 · grade D · 36 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Bay City
Bay City has an estimated 17,471 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 9.3 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 21 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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