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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Borger, TX
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Borger, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Borger. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Borger, TX safe?
Borger, Texas has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 40 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
- 40 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 30%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 56%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 16
How Borger compares
Borger scores 13 points below the Texas statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Borger lies in Hutchinson County, which has a county Safety Score of 35, grade D.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Borger.
Neighborhoods inside Borger
16 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Borger, 12 of them mostly inside it. Among those 12, the lowest scores 2, the highest 72, and the middle 80% range from 7 to 72.
ZIP codes where Borger residents live
Nearly all of Borger's estimated residents live in ZIP 79007 (Safety Score 49, grade C). An estimated 33% of that ZIP's residents live outside Borger, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 79007 profile.
Closest cities in Texas
- Pampa Safety Score 39 · grade D · 26 miles
- Dumas Safety Score 39 · grade D · 35 miles
- Amarillo Safety Score 48 · grade C · 42 miles
- Canyon Safety Score 44 · grade C · 56 miles
- Hereford Safety Score 49 · grade C · 81 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Borger
Borger has an estimated 11,892 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 8.8 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 16 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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