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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Canyon, TX
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Canyon, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Canyon. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Canyon, TX safe?
Canyon, Texas has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 44 out of 100, grade C, below the Texas statewide score of 53. An estimated 23% 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
- 44 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 23%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 52%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 17
How Canyon compares
Canyon scores 9 points below the Texas statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Canyon lies in Randall County, which has a county Safety Score of 62, grade B.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Canyon.
Neighborhoods inside Canyon
17 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Canyon, 10 of them mostly inside it. Among those 10, the lowest scores 10, the highest 91, and the middle 80% range from 18 to 60.
ZIP codes where Canyon residents live
An estimated 99% of Canyon's residents live in ZIP 79015 (Safety Score 57, grade C). An estimated 48% of that ZIP's residents live outside Canyon, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 79015 profile.
Closest cities in Texas
- Amarillo Safety Score 48 · grade C · 14 miles
- Hereford Safety Score 49 · grade C · 29 miles
- Borger Safety Score 40 · grade C · 56 miles
- Plainview Safety Score 39 · grade D · 56 miles
- Dumas Safety Score 39 · grade D · 61 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Canyon
Canyon has an estimated 16,457 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 7.9 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 17 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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