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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Socorro, TX
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Socorro, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Socorro. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Socorro, TX safe?
Socorro, Texas has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 44 out of 100, grade C, below the Texas statewide score of 53. An estimated 38% 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
- 44 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 38%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 35%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 31
How Socorro compares
Socorro scores 9 points below the Texas statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Socorro lies in El Paso County, which has a county Safety Score of 14, grade F.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Socorro.
Neighborhoods inside Socorro
31 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Socorro, 20 of them mostly inside it. Among those 20, the lowest scores 5, the highest 64, and the middle 80% range from 15 to 64.
ZIP codes where Socorro residents live
An estimated 99% of Socorro's residents live in ZIP 79927 (Safety Score 47, grade C). An estimated 19% of that ZIP's residents live outside Socorro, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 79927 profile.
Closest cities in Texas
- San Elizario Safety Score 34 · grade D · 4.2 miles
- Horizon City Safety Score 45 · grade C · 5.3 miles
- El Paso Safety Score 52 · grade C · 13 miles
- Pecos Safety Score 51 · grade C · 164 miles
- Andrews Safety Score 38 · grade D · 223 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Socorro
Socorro has an estimated 38,642 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 21.9 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 31 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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