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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Brownsville, TX
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Brownsville, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Brownsville. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Brownsville, TX safe?
Brownsville, Texas has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 50 out of 100, grade C, below the Texas statewide score of 53. An estimated 44% 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
- 50 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 44%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 40%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 171
How Brownsville compares
Brownsville scores 3 points below the Texas statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Brownsville lies in Cameron County, which has a county Safety Score of 6, grade F.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Brownsville.
Neighborhoods inside Brownsville
171 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Brownsville, 139 of them mostly inside it. Among those 139, the lowest scores 0, the highest 97, and the middle 80% range from 9 to 86.
ZIP codes where Brownsville residents live
Listed by the estimated share of Brownsville'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
- San Benito Safety Score 30 · grade D · 16 miles
- Harlingen Safety Score 43 · grade C · 22 miles
- Mercedes Safety Score 39 · grade D · 30 miles
- Weslaco Safety Score 48 · grade C · 35 miles
- Donna Safety Score 22 · grade D · 39 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Brownsville
Brownsville has an estimated 191,967 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 131.5 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 171 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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