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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Mercedes, TX
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Mercedes, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Mercedes. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Mercedes, TX safe?
Mercedes, Texas has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 39 out of 100, grade D, below the Texas statewide score of 53. An estimated 21% 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
- 39 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 21%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 48%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 18
How Mercedes compares
Mercedes scores 14 points below the Texas statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Mercedes 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 Mercedes.
Neighborhoods inside Mercedes
18 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Mercedes, 10 of them mostly inside it. Among those 10, the lowest scores 7, the highest 72, and the middle 80% range from 8 to 67.
ZIP codes where Mercedes residents live
Nearly all of Mercedes's estimated residents live in ZIP 78570 (Safety Score 30, grade D). An estimated 60% of that ZIP's residents live outside Mercedes, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 78570 profile.
Closest cities in Texas
- Weslaco Safety Score 48 · grade C · 4.8 miles
- Donna Safety Score 22 · grade D · 8.8 miles
- Alamo Safety Score 40 · grade C · 13 miles
- Harlingen Safety Score 43 · grade C · 14 miles
- San Juan Safety Score 52 · grade C · 15 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Mercedes
Mercedes has an estimated 17,535 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 11.8 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 18 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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