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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Princeton, TX
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Princeton, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Princeton. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Princeton, TX safe?
Princeton, Texas has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 83 out of 100, grade A, above the Texas statewide score of 53. An estimated 93% 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
- 83 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 93%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- <1%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 10
How Princeton compares
Princeton scores 30 points above the Texas statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Princeton lies in Collin County, which has a county Safety Score of 82, grade A.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Princeton.
Neighborhoods inside Princeton
10 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Princeton; 3 of them lie mostly inside it.
ZIP codes where Princeton residents live
Nearly all of Princeton's estimated residents live in ZIP 75407 (Safety Score 73, grade B). An estimated 51% of that ZIP's residents live outside Princeton, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 75407 profile.
Closest cities in Texas
- Fairview Safety Score 32 · grade D · 6.6 miles
- Melissa Safety Score 84 · grade A · 7.9 miles
- McKinney Safety Score 58 · grade C · 9.8 miles
- Allen Safety Score 62 · grade B · 10 miles
- Anna Safety Score 60 · grade B · 12 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Princeton
Princeton has an estimated 37,019 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 10.1 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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