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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Buda, TX
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Buda, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Buda. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Buda, TX safe?
Buda, Texas has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 64 out of 100, grade B, above the Texas statewide score of 53. An estimated 64% 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
- 64 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 64%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 21%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 12
How Buda compares
Buda scores 11 points above the Texas statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Buda lies in Hays County, which has a county Safety Score of 66, grade B.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Buda.
Neighborhoods inside Buda
12 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Buda; 3 of them lie mostly inside it.
ZIP codes where Buda residents live
Nearly all of Buda's estimated residents live in ZIP 78610 (Safety Score 78, grade B). An estimated 73% of that ZIP's residents live outside Buda, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 78610 profile.
Closest cities in Texas
- Kyle Safety Score 64 · grade B · 5.6 miles
- San Marcos Safety Score 20 · grade D · 15 miles
- Dripping Springs Safety Score 66 · grade B · 15 miles
- Austin Safety Score 41 · grade C · 16 miles
- Lockhart Safety Score 52 · grade C · 17 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Buda
Buda has an estimated 16,090 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 9.3 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 12 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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