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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Pharr, TX
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Pharr, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Pharr. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Pharr, TX safe?
Pharr, Texas has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 42 out of 100, grade C, below the Texas statewide score of 53. An estimated 27% 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
- 42 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 27%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 43%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 58
How Pharr compares
Pharr scores 11 points below the Texas statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Pharr 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 Pharr.
Neighborhoods inside Pharr
58 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Pharr, 53 of them mostly inside it. Among those 53, the lowest scores 2, the highest 84, and the middle 80% range from 7 to 77.
ZIP codes where Pharr residents live
Nearly all of Pharr's estimated residents live in ZIP 78577 (Safety Score 42, grade C). An estimated 4% of that ZIP's residents live outside Pharr, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 78577 profile.
Closest cities in Texas
- San Juan Safety Score 52 · grade C · 2.9 miles
- Alamo Safety Score 40 · grade C · 4.5 miles
- McAllen Safety Score 58 · grade C · 4.8 miles
- Hidalgo Safety Score 60 · grade B · 5.8 miles
- Donna Safety Score 22 · grade D · 8.4 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Pharr
Pharr has an estimated 81,142 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 23.6 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 58 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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