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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Hidalgo, TX

Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Hidalgo, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.

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City Safety Score 60/100 Grade B Modeled estimate · 0 to 100, higher is safer
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Is Hidalgo, TX safe?

Hidalgo, Texas has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 60 out of 100, grade B, above the Texas statewide score of 53. An estimated 59% 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
60 / 100
Residents in A or B neighborhoods
59%
Residents in D or F neighborhoods
29%
Scored neighborhoods
9

How Hidalgo compares

Hidalgo scores 7 points above the Texas statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.

Hidalgo lies in Hidalgo County, which has a county Safety Score of 5, grade F.

County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Hidalgo.

Neighborhoods inside Hidalgo

9 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Hidalgo, 6 of them mostly inside it. Among those 6, the lowest scores 23, the highest 84, and the middle 80% range from 28 to 84.

Safety Score, 0–100 · shaded band: 10th–90th percentiles · whiskers: lowest and highest

Hidalgo

A 33% · B 26% · C 12% · D 29% · F 0%

Texas

A 25% · B 20% · C 20% · D 19% · F 16%

Estimated share of residents living in neighborhoods of each grade, in Hidalgo and across Texas.

ZIP codes where Hidalgo residents live

Nearly all of Hidalgo's estimated residents live in ZIP 78557 (Safety Score 62, grade B). An estimated 22% of that ZIP's residents live outside Hidalgo, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 78557 profile.

Closest cities in Texas

  1. Pharr Safety Score 42 · grade C · 5.8 miles
  2. McAllen Safety Score 58 · grade C · 8.5 miles
  3. San Juan Safety Score 52 · grade C · 8.5 miles
  4. Alamo Safety Score 40 · grade C · 9.1 miles
  5. Mission Safety Score 57 · grade C · 9.2 miles

Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.

About Hidalgo

Hidalgo has an estimated 15,164 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 8.3 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 9 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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Scores as of

Safety Scores compare areas on a 0–100 scale; higher is safer. Scores are modeled estimates, not official crime rates or reported incident counts.

City scores combine the scored neighborhoods that lie at least partly within city limits, weighted by their estimated residents inside the limits. They are not an average of the ZIP scores listed for a city.

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