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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Big Spring, TX
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Big Spring, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Big Spring. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Big Spring, TX safe?
Big Spring, Texas has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 43 out of 100, grade C, below the Texas statewide score of 53. An estimated 30% 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
- 43 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 30%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 39%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 23
How Big Spring compares
Big Spring scores 10 points below the Texas statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Big Spring lies in Howard County, which has a county Safety Score of 41, grade C.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Big Spring.
Neighborhoods inside Big Spring
23 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Big Spring, 19 of them mostly inside it. Among those 19, the lowest scores 2, the highest 86, and the middle 80% range from 8 to 69.
ZIP codes where Big Spring residents live
Nearly all of Big Spring's estimated residents live in ZIP 79720 (Safety Score 51, grade C). An estimated 37% of that ZIP's residents live outside Big Spring, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 79720 profile.
Closest cities in Texas
- Midland Safety Score 51 · grade C · 41 miles
- Snyder Safety Score 54 · grade C · 46 miles
- Odessa Safety Score 47 · grade C · 58 miles
- Andrews Safety Score 38 · grade D · 63 miles
- Sweetwater Safety Score 28 · grade D · 65 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Big Spring
Big Spring has an estimated 22,541 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 18.9 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 23 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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