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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in San Juan, TX
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in San Juan, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around San Juan. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is San Juan, TX safe?
San Juan, Texas has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 52 out of 100, grade C, below the Texas statewide score of 53. An estimated 53% 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
- 52 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 53%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 32%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 27
How San Juan compares
San Juan scores 1 point below the Texas statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
San Juan lies in Hidalgo County, which has a county Safety Score of 5, grade F.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside San Juan.
Neighborhoods inside San Juan
27 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside San Juan, 22 of them mostly inside it. Among those 22, the lowest scores 2, the highest 84, and the middle 80% range from 5 to 72.
ZIP codes where San Juan residents live
Nearly all of San Juan's estimated residents live in ZIP 78589 (Safety Score 50, grade C). An estimated 20% of that ZIP's residents live outside San Juan, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 78589 profile.
Closest cities in Texas
- Alamo Safety Score 40 · grade C · 2.4 miles
- Pharr Safety Score 42 · grade C · 2.9 miles
- McAllen Safety Score 58 · grade C · 6.0 miles
- Donna Safety Score 22 · grade D · 6.4 miles
- Edinburg Safety Score 44 · grade C · 7.1 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About San Juan
San Juan has an estimated 37,341 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 11.6 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 27 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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