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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Rio Grande City, TX
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Rio Grande City, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Rio Grande City. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Rio Grande City, TX safe?
Rio Grande City, Texas has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 42 out of 100, grade C, below the Texas statewide score of 53. An estimated 24% 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
- 24%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 63%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 18
How Rio Grande City compares
Rio Grande City scores 11 points below the Texas statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Rio Grande City lies in Starr County, which has a county Safety Score of 2, grade F.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Rio Grande City.
Neighborhoods inside Rio Grande City
18 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Rio Grande City, 11 of them mostly inside it. Among those 11, the lowest scores 12, the highest 83, and the middle 80% range from 16 to 78.
ZIP codes where Rio Grande City residents live
Nearly all of Rio Grande City's estimated residents live in ZIP 78582 (Safety Score 44, grade C). An estimated 70% of that ZIP's residents live outside Rio Grande City, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 78582 profile.
Closest cities in Texas
- Roma Safety Score 22 · grade D · 11 miles
- Palmview Safety Score 30 · grade D · 29 miles
- Alton Safety Score 51 · grade C · 33 miles
- Mission Safety Score 57 · grade C · 33 miles
- McAllen Safety Score 58 · grade C · 38 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Rio Grande City
Rio Grande City has an estimated 15,526 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 11.4 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 18 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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