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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Baytown, TX
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Baytown, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Baytown. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Baytown, TX safe?
Baytown, Texas has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 48 out of 100, grade C, below the Texas statewide score of 53. An estimated 28% 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
- 48 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 28%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 42%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 65
How Baytown compares
Baytown scores 5 points below the Texas statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Baytown's estimated residents live in 2 counties:
- Harris County 95% of residents · county Safety Score 18, grade F
- Chambers County 5% of residents · county Safety Score 80, grade A
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Baytown.
Neighborhoods inside Baytown
65 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Baytown, 44 of them mostly inside it. Among those 44, the lowest scores 10, the highest 92, and the middle 80% range from 27 to 78.
ZIP codes where Baytown residents live
Listed by the estimated share of Baytown'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
- La Porte Safety Score 70 · grade B · 8.7 miles
- Mont Belvieu Safety Score 62 · grade B · 8.9 miles
- Deer Park Safety Score 76 · grade B · 10 miles
- Seabrook Safety Score 69 · grade B · 13 miles
- Pasadena Safety Score 49 · grade C · 14 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Baytown
Baytown has an estimated 86,004 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 37 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 65 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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