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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in San Benito, TX
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in San Benito, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around San Benito. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is San Benito, TX safe?
San Benito, Texas has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 30 out of 100, grade D, below the Texas statewide score of 53. An estimated 13% 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
- 30 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 13%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 71%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 30
How San Benito compares
San Benito scores 23 points below the Texas statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
San Benito lies in Cameron County, which has a county Safety Score of 6, grade F.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside San Benito.
Neighborhoods inside San Benito
30 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside San Benito, 17 of them mostly inside it. Among those 17, the lowest scores 2, the highest 89, and the middle 80% range from 6 to 58.
ZIP codes where San Benito residents live
Nearly all of San Benito's estimated residents live in ZIP 78586 (Safety Score 40, grade C). An estimated 55% of that ZIP's residents live outside San Benito, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 78586 profile.
Closest cities in Texas
- Harlingen Safety Score 43 · grade C · 5.5 miles
- Brownsville Safety Score 50 · grade C · 16 miles
- Mercedes Safety Score 39 · grade D · 17 miles
- Weslaco Safety Score 48 · grade C · 22 miles
- Raymondville Safety Score 37 · grade D · 26 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About San Benito
San Benito has an estimated 24,712 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 15.8 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 30 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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