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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Palestine, TX
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Palestine, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Palestine. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Palestine, TX safe?
Palestine, Texas has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 29 out of 100, grade D, below the Texas statewide score of 53. An estimated 8% 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
- 29 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 8%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 77%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 24
How Palestine compares
Palestine scores 24 points below the Texas statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Palestine lies in Anderson County, which has a county Safety Score of 26, grade D.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Palestine.
Neighborhoods inside Palestine
24 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Palestine, 14 of them mostly inside it. Among those 14, the lowest scores 8, the highest 64, and the middle 80% range from 12 to 50.
ZIP codes where Palestine residents live
Listed by the estimated share of Palestine'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
- Jacksonville Safety Score 43 · grade C · 26 miles
- Athens Safety Score 42 · grade C · 33 miles
- Tyler Safety Score 44 · grade C · 44 miles
- Corsicana Safety Score 39 · grade D · 55 miles
- Henderson Safety Score 48 · grade C · 56 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Palestine
Palestine has an estimated 19,583 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 19.4 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 24 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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