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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Port Lavaca, TX
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Port Lavaca, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Port Lavaca. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Port Lavaca, TX safe?
Port Lavaca, Texas has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 50 out of 100, grade C, below the Texas statewide score of 53. An estimated 52% 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
- 50 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 52%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 43%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 10
How Port Lavaca compares
Port Lavaca scores 3 points below the Texas statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Port Lavaca lies in Calhoun County, which has a county Safety Score of 84, grade A.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Port Lavaca.
Neighborhoods inside Port Lavaca
10 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Port Lavaca, 8 of them mostly inside it. Among those 8, the lowest scores 4, the highest 93, and the middle 80% range from 17 to 76.
ZIP codes where Port Lavaca residents live
Nearly all of Port Lavaca's estimated residents live in ZIP 77979 (Safety Score 53, grade C). An estimated 44% of that ZIP's residents live outside Port Lavaca, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 77979 profile.
Closest cities in Texas
- Victoria Safety Score 44 · grade C · 26 miles
- El Campo Safety Score 44 · grade C · 45 miles
- Bay City Safety Score 45 · grade C · 47 miles
- Rockport Safety Score 53 · grade C · 48 miles
- Ingleside Safety Score 67 · grade B · 63 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Port Lavaca
Port Lavaca has an estimated 11,299 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 10.2 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 10 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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