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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Harker Heights, TX
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Harker Heights, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Harker Heights. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Harker Heights, TX safe?
Harker Heights, Texas has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 64 out of 100, grade B, above the Texas statewide score of 53. An estimated 58% 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
- 58%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 22%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 26
How Harker Heights compares
Harker Heights scores 11 points above the Texas statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Harker Heights lies in Bell County, which has a county Safety Score of 29, grade D.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Harker Heights.
Neighborhoods inside Harker Heights
26 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Harker Heights, 19 of them mostly inside it. Among those 19, the lowest scores 12, the highest 92, and the middle 80% range from 14 to 92.
ZIP codes where Harker Heights residents live
Listed by the estimated share of Harker Heights'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
- Killeen Safety Score 49 · grade C · 5.3 miles
- Belton Safety Score 40 · grade C · 11 miles
- Copperas Cove Safety Score 50 · grade C · 16 miles
- Temple Safety Score 51 · grade C · 16 miles
- Gatesville Safety Score 22 · grade D · 28 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Harker Heights
Harker Heights has an estimated 35,263 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 15.6 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 26 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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