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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Selma, TX
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Selma, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Selma. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Selma, TX safe?
Selma, Texas has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 67 out of 100, grade B, above the Texas statewide score of 53. An estimated 62% 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
- 67 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 62%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 1%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 8
How Selma compares
Selma scores 14 points above the Texas statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Counties holding at least 1% of Selma's estimated residents:
- Bexar County 61% of residents · county Safety Score 22, grade D
- Guadalupe County 39% of residents · county Safety Score 83, grade A
Selma's city limits also take in land in 1 other county, with under 1% of its estimated residents.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Selma.
Neighborhoods in and around Selma
8 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Selma; 2 of them lie mostly inside it, so the city score also draws on block groups that are at least half outside the city limits.
ZIP codes where Selma residents live
Nearly all of Selma's estimated residents live in ZIP 78154 (Safety Score 67, grade B). An estimated 78% of that ZIP's residents live outside Selma, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 78154 profile.
Closest cities in Texas
- Universal City Safety Score 71 · grade B · 2.4 miles
- Live Oak Safety Score 72 · grade B · 2.8 miles
- Schertz Safety Score 69 · grade B · 3.4 miles
- Cibolo Safety Score 72 · grade B · 4.8 miles
- Converse Safety Score 63 · grade B · 5.0 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Selma
Selma has an estimated 11,900 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 5 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 8 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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