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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Melissa, TX
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Melissa, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Melissa. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Melissa, TX safe?
Melissa, Texas has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 84 out of 100, grade A, above the Texas statewide score of 53. An estimated 94% 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
- 84 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 94%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- <1%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 7
How Melissa compares
Melissa scores 31 points above the Texas statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Melissa lies in Collin County, which has a county Safety Score of 82, grade A.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Melissa.
Neighborhoods in and around Melissa
7 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Melissa; 2 of them lie mostly inside it, so the city score also draws on block groups that are at least half outside the city limits.
ZIP codes where Melissa residents live
Listed by the estimated share of Melissa'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
- Anna Safety Score 60 · grade B · 3.9 miles
- Princeton Safety Score 83 · grade A · 7.9 miles
- McKinney Safety Score 58 · grade C · 10 miles
- Fairview Safety Score 32 · grade D · 11 miles
- Celina Safety Score 66 · grade B · 13 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Melissa
Melissa has an estimated 26,194 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 11.5 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 7 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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