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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Sweetwater, TX

Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Sweetwater, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.

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City Safety Score 28/100 Grade D Modeled estimate · 0 to 100, higher is safer
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Is Sweetwater, TX safe?

Sweetwater, Texas has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 28 out of 100, grade D, below the Texas statewide score of 53. An estimated 1% 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
28 / 100
Residents in A or B neighborhoods
1%
Residents in D or F neighborhoods
73%
Scored neighborhoods
14

How Sweetwater compares

Sweetwater scores 25 points below the Texas statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.

Sweetwater lies in Nolan County, which has a county Safety Score of 8, grade F.

County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Sweetwater.

Neighborhoods inside Sweetwater

14 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Sweetwater, 11 of them mostly inside it. Among those 11, the lowest scores 3, the highest 52, and the middle 80% range from 8 to 45.

Safety Score, 0–100 · shaded band: 10th–90th percentiles · whiskers: lowest and highest

Sweetwater

A 1% · B 0% · C 27% · D 39% · F 34%

Texas

A 25% · B 20% · C 20% · D 19% · F 16%

Estimated share of residents living in neighborhoods of each grade, in Sweetwater and across Texas.

ZIP codes where Sweetwater residents live

Nearly all of Sweetwater's estimated residents live in ZIP 79556 (Safety Score 35, grade D). An estimated 24% of that ZIP's residents live outside Sweetwater, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 79556 profile.

Closest cities in Texas

  1. Snyder Safety Score 54 · grade C · 34 miles
  2. Abilene Safety Score 47 · grade C · 38 miles
  3. Big Spring Safety Score 43 · grade C · 65 miles
  4. San Angelo Safety Score 50 · grade C · 71 miles
  5. Brownwood Safety Score 29 · grade D · 99 miles

Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.

About Sweetwater

Sweetwater has an estimated 10,196 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 11.1 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 14 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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Scores as of

Safety Scores compare areas on a 0–100 scale; higher is safer. Scores are modeled estimates, not official crime rates or reported incident counts.

City scores combine the scored neighborhoods that lie at least partly within city limits, weighted by their estimated residents inside the limits. They are not an average of the ZIP scores listed for a city.

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