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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Harlingen, TX
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Harlingen, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Harlingen. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Harlingen, TX safe?
Harlingen, Texas has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 43 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
- 43 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 23%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 43%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 71
How Harlingen compares
Harlingen scores 10 points below the Texas statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Harlingen lies in Cameron County, which has a county Safety Score of 6, grade F.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Harlingen.
Neighborhoods inside Harlingen
71 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Harlingen, 52 of them mostly inside it. Among those 52, the lowest scores 5, the highest 97, and the middle 80% range from 13 to 78.
ZIP codes where Harlingen residents live
Listed by the estimated share of Harlingen'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
- San Benito Safety Score 30 · grade D · 5.5 miles
- Mercedes Safety Score 39 · grade D · 14 miles
- Weslaco Safety Score 48 · grade C · 18 miles
- Raymondville Safety Score 37 · grade D · 21 miles
- Brownsville Safety Score 50 · grade C · 22 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Harlingen
Harlingen has an estimated 72,234 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 40.1 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 71 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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