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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Elgin, TX
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Elgin, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Elgin. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Elgin, TX safe?
Elgin, Texas has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 57 out of 100, grade C, above the Texas statewide score of 53. An estimated 16% 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
- 57 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 16%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 10%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 11
How Elgin compares
Elgin scores 4 points above the Texas statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Elgin's estimated residents live in 2 counties:
- Bastrop County 96% of residents · county Safety Score 73, grade B
- Travis County 4% of residents · county Safety Score 16, grade F
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Elgin.
Neighborhoods in and around Elgin
11 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Elgin; 1 of them lies mostly inside it, so the city score also draws on block groups that are at least half outside the city limits.
ZIP codes where Elgin residents live
Nearly all of Elgin's estimated residents live in ZIP 78621 (Safety Score 67, grade B). Part of that ZIP lies outside Elgin, and the ZIP score includes it. See the ZIP 78621 profile.
Closest cities in Texas
- Manor Safety Score 76 · grade B · 8.0 miles
- Pflugerville Safety Score 74 · grade B · 15 miles
- Taylor Safety Score 62 · grade B · 16 miles
- Hutto Safety Score 76 · grade B · 16 miles
- Bastrop Safety Score 45 · grade C · 17 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Elgin
Elgin has an estimated 12,438 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 6.6 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 11 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 Elgin, 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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