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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Plainview, TX
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Plainview, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Plainview. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Plainview, TX safe?
Plainview, Texas has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 39 out of 100, grade D, below the Texas statewide score of 53. An estimated 22% 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
- 22%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 53%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 20
How Plainview compares
Plainview scores 14 points below the Texas statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Plainview lies in Hale County, which has a county Safety Score of 29, grade D.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Plainview.
Neighborhoods inside Plainview
20 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Plainview, 16 of them mostly inside it. Among those 16, the lowest scores 2, the highest 77, and the middle 80% range from 6 to 68.
ZIP codes where Plainview residents live
Nearly all of Plainview's estimated residents live in ZIP 79072 (Safety Score 40, grade C). An estimated 32% of that ZIP's residents live outside Plainview, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 79072 profile.
Closest cities in Texas
- Lubbock Safety Score 46 · grade C · 45 miles
- Canyon Safety Score 44 · grade C · 56 miles
- Levelland Safety Score 44 · grade C · 56 miles
- Hereford Safety Score 49 · grade C · 58 miles
- Amarillo Safety Score 48 · grade C · 69 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Plainview
Plainview has an estimated 19,429 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 13.9 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 20 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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