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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Dripping Springs, TX
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Dripping Springs, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Dripping Springs. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Dripping Springs, TX safe?
Dripping Springs, Texas has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 66 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
- 66 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 64%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- <1%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 10
How Dripping Springs compares
Dripping Springs scores 13 points above the Texas statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Dripping Springs 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 Dripping Springs.
Neighborhoods in and around Dripping Springs
10 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Dripping Springs; none of them lies mostly inside it, so every block group in the city score is at least half outside the city limits.
ZIP codes where Dripping Springs residents live
Listed by the estimated share of Dripping Springs'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
- Lakeway Safety Score 66 · grade B · 12 miles
- Buda Safety Score 64 · grade B · 15 miles
- Lago Vista Safety Score 81 · grade A · 17 miles
- Kyle Safety Score 64 · grade B · 18 miles
- Austin Safety Score 41 · grade C · 20 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Dripping Springs
Dripping Springs has an estimated 10,165 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 8.8 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 10 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. For Dripping Springs, residents estimated this way number fewer than half of its April 2020 Census estimates base, so the resident shares on this page are rough.
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