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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Gainesville, TX
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Gainesville, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Gainesville. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Gainesville, TX safe?
Gainesville, Texas has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 30 out of 100, grade D, below the Texas statewide score of 53. An estimated 1% 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
- 30 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 1%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 63%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 22
How Gainesville compares
Gainesville scores 23 points below the Texas statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Gainesville lies in Cooke County, which has a county Safety Score of 59, grade C.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Gainesville.
Neighborhoods inside Gainesville
22 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Gainesville, 12 of them mostly inside it. Among those 12, the lowest scores 1, the highest 53, and the middle 80% range from 4 to 52.
ZIP codes where Gainesville residents live
Nearly all of Gainesville's estimated residents live in ZIP 76240 (Safety Score 48, grade C). An estimated 52% of that ZIP's residents live outside Gainesville, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 76240 profile.
Closest cities in Texas
- Sanger Safety Score 81 · grade A · 19 miles
- Providence Village Safety Score 66 · grade B · 29 miles
- Denton Safety Score 39 · grade D · 29 miles
- Sherman Safety Score 36 · grade D · 30 miles
- Celina Safety Score 66 · grade B · 31 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Gainesville
Gainesville has an estimated 18,295 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 19.3 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 22 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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