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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Hereford, TX
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Hereford, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Hereford. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Hereford, TX safe?
Hereford, Texas has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 49 out of 100, grade C, below the Texas statewide score of 53. An estimated 44% 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
- 49 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 44%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 33%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 16
How Hereford compares
Hereford scores 4 points below the Texas statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Hereford lies in Deaf Smith County, which has a county Safety Score of 14, grade F.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Hereford.
Neighborhoods inside Hereford
16 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Hereford, 13 of them mostly inside it. Among those 13, the lowest scores 5, the highest 90, and the middle 80% range from 13 to 79.
ZIP codes where Hereford residents live
Nearly all of Hereford's estimated residents live in ZIP 79045 (Safety Score 47, grade C). An estimated 26% of that ZIP's residents live outside Hereford, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 79045 profile.
Closest cities in Texas
- Canyon Safety Score 44 · grade C · 29 miles
- Amarillo Safety Score 48 · grade C · 39 miles
- Plainview Safety Score 39 · grade D · 58 miles
- Dumas Safety Score 39 · grade D · 76 miles
- Borger Safety Score 40 · grade C · 81 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Hereford
Hereford has an estimated 14,860 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 6.3 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 16 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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