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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Belton, TX
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Belton, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Belton. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Belton, TX safe?
Belton, Texas has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 40 out of 100, grade C, below the Texas statewide score of 53. An estimated 26% 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
- 26%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 56%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 24
How Belton compares
Belton scores 13 points below the Texas statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Belton lies in Bell County, which has a county Safety Score of 29, grade D.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Belton.
Neighborhoods inside Belton
24 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Belton, 10 of them mostly inside it. Among those 10, the lowest scores 4, the highest 60, and the middle 80% range from 8 to 54.
ZIP codes where Belton residents live
Nearly all of Belton's estimated residents live in ZIP 76513 (Safety Score 61, grade B). An estimated 59% of that ZIP's residents live outside Belton, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 76513 profile.
Closest cities in Texas
- Temple Safety Score 51 · grade C · 5.7 miles
- Harker Heights Safety Score 64 · grade B · 11 miles
- Killeen Safety Score 49 · grade C · 16 miles
- Copperas Cove Safety Score 50 · grade C · 26 miles
- Georgetown Safety Score 55 · grade C · 31 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Belton
Belton has an estimated 25,635 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 20.2 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 24 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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