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Texas’s 50 Safest Cities of 2021

By Rebecca Edwards
Security Expert, Safety & Tech Reporter

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Published on March 09, 2021

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The SafeWise Team is pleased to release the seventh

annual Safest Cities report.

Here are the 10 Safest Cities in

Texas for 2021

1. Trophy Club
2. Fulshear
3. Fair Oaks Ranch
4. Colleyville
5. Horizon City
6. Fate
7. Murphy
8. University Park
9. Helotes
10. Highland Village​

See if your city made the top 50.

Texans’s daily concern about safety jumped 13

percentage points this year to 62%. Not only is that a
huge leap from last year’s 49%—it’s also 15 percentage
points higher than the national average. But those
who live in one of Texas’s 50 safest cities may be less
concerned due to signi"cantly lower rates of crime
than the rest of the state.

Texans are 32% more worried

about crime and safety than
the rest of the country.

2021 Texas crime rates

Even though Texas’s crime rates are higher than

national averages, The Lone Star State boasts the
lowest crime rates in the West South Central region.
Texas is 28% below Arkansas, which has the highest
violent crime rate in the region at 5.8 incidents per
1,000 people. And Texas reports 24% fewer property
crime incidents than Louisiana, which has the highest
property crime rate in the region at 31.6 incidents per
1,000.

That said, the state saw slight upticks in both violent

and property crime this year. Texas’s violent crime rate
saw a small 2% increase from 4.1 to 4.2 incidents per
1,000 people. Likewise, the property crime rate rose by
nearly 1% from 23.7 to 23.9 incidents per 1,000
people.

Level of concern and experience with

crime in Texas

High levels of concern about crime and safety echo

higher crime rates across The Lone Star State, but
reported experiences of both violent and property
crime fell year over year. Although Texans worry more
than the rest of the US, 56% feel safe in the state—
slightly higher than the national average of 55%.

60% of Texans think crime is increasing versus

11% that think it’s decreasing. Nationwide, 66%
think crime is on the rise and 8% think it’s
declining.

Personal experience with violent crime went

down 56% year over year, with 7% of survey
respondents reporting a personal experience in
the past 12 months, compared to 16% last year.

Personal experience with property crime also

went down 39% year over year, from 23% in
2020 to 14% this year.

Package theft was the most experienced crime in

Texas, with 21% falling victim to porch pirates in the
past 12 months (US 20%).

Crime concerns in Texas

We asked Texas residents which crimes they worry

may happen to them. See if Texans are concerned
about the same crime issues as the rest of the country.

View the complete 2021 State of Safety report.

Violent crime in Texas: Fear vs.

reality

Concern about violent crime is 11 percentage points

higher in Texas than the rest of the US. That jump in
concern re#ects a rising violent crime rate statewide.
Texans expressed the second-highest overall concern
about gun violence.

61% said they worry about gun violence every

day (US 53%).

53% are most worried about a gun violence

incident happening to them (US 38%).

Texas saw 34 mass shooting incidents in 2020,

compared to 30 in 2019.

There were 258 o$cer-involved shooting

incidents statewide in 2020, up from 247 in
2019.

47% of survey respondents worry about police

violence daily (US 40%), but a full 60% have
con"dence in law enforcement (US 56%).

The safest cities in Texas have 83% fewer violent

crime incidents per 1,000 people than the rest of
the state.

48% of survey participants use some form of

personal protection—41% higher than the
national average of 34%.

50% say their personal safety has been a%ected

by the pandemic (US 44%), and 70% worry about
the pandemic every day (US 62%).

Property crime in Texas: Fear

vs. reality

Texans are 45% more concerned about property crime

than the most Americans. Those higher concerns
mirror a rising property crime rate in the state.

Overall, property crime is the crime that Texans

are most worried will happen to them, and it
accounts for 85% of all crime reported to the FBI
by Texas law enforcement agencies.

The safest cities in Texas have 67% fewer

property crime incidents per 1,000 people than
the rest of the state.

Larceny-theft is the most prevalent property

crime, accounting for 72% of all reported
incidents.

Burglary makes up 16% of all property crime in

the state, but just 12% among the safest cities.

65% of Texas survey participants use some form

of property protection (US 62%) with dogs
nabbing "rst place—33% use dogs or another
guard animal to help protect their home.

42% say the security of their property has been

a%ected by the pandemic (US 29%).

A closer look at the safest cities

in Texas

For the purposes of this report, the terms “dangerous”

and “safest” refer explicitly to crime rates as calculated
from FBI crime data—no other characterization of any
community is implied or intended.

266 cities met criteria to be considered for

ranking.

Trophy Club jumped three spots to be named

the number one safest city in The Lone Star
State.

Fulshear slipped 1 spot to number 2 this year.

P#ugerville made its debut on our list at number

48.

29 cities improved their ranking this year, with

Prosper making the biggest leap from 91 to 23.

20 cities fell in rank this year, with

Fredericksburg seeing the biggest drop from
number 42 to 49.

Only 1 city—Southlake—held onto its ranking

year over year. Southlake is once again the
twenty-ninth safest city in Texas.

82% (41) of the cities reported 0 counts of

murder, and no safest city reported more than 2
murders.

3 of the safest cities have populations over

100,000: Allen, Frisco, and McKinney, making
their low crime rates even more impressive.

32% (16) of the cities reported fewer than 100

total property crimes, and only 3 cities reported
more than 1,000 property crimes (Allen, Frisco,
and McKinney).

The safest cities in Texas average 0.7 violent

crime incidents and 8.0 property crime incidents
per 1,000 people (81% and 62% below national
averages, respectively).

The 50 Safest Cities in Texas

#1 Trophy Club (+3 )

Population 13,031

Median Income $142,483

VC Rate 2021, 2020, 2019 0.1, 0.2, 0.2

PC Rate 2021, 2020, 2019 4.9, 5.3, 6.8

#2 Fulshear (-1 )

Population 13,967

Median Income $175,242

VC Rate 2021, 2020, 2019 0.0, 0.1, 0.7

PC Rate 2021, 2020, 2019 6.2, 4.4, 6.6

#3 Fair Oaks Ranch (+4 )

Population 10,151

Median Income $125,806

VC Rate 2021, 2020, 2019 0.6, 0.4, 0.3

PC Rate 2021, 2020, 2019 2.8, 4.6, 4.6

#4 Colleyville (+2 )

Population 27,499

Median Income $175,369

VC Rate 2021, 2020, 2019 0.2, 0.3, 0.2

PC Rate 2021, 2020, 2019 6.1, 5.5, 5.8

#5 Horizon City (+7 )

Population 20,131

Median Income $57,983

VC Rate 2021, 2020, 2019 0.3, 0.6, 0.8

PC Rate 2021, 2020, 2019 5.0, 5.6, 6.0

#6 Fate (+5 )

Population 15,378

Median Income $108,237

VC Rate 2021, 2020, 2019 0.4, 0.7, 0.9

PC Rate 2021, 2020, 2019 4.7, 4.8, 3.5

#7 Murphy (+3 )

Population 20,962

Median Income $132,589

VC Rate 2021, 2020, 2019 0.4, 0.5, 0.3

PC Rate 2021, 2020, 2019 5.0, 5.4, 6.1

#8 University Park (+13 )

Population 25,434

Median Income $214,477

VC Rate 2021, 2020, 2019 0.2, 0.2, 0.4

PC Rate 2021, 2020, 2019 7.4, 11.8, 12.5

#9 Helotes (+43 )

Population 9,881

Median Income $131,379

VC Rate 2021, 2020, 2019 0.2, 0.6, 0.9

PC Rate 2021, 2020, 2019 8.2, 16.3, 15.9

#10 Highland Village (+5 )

Population 16,721

Median Income $143,854

VC Rate 2021, 2020, 2019 0.5, 0.5, 0.7

PC Rate 2021, 2020, 2019 6.5, 7.9, 9.9

#11 Sachse (+6 )

Population 26,926

Median Income $101,253

VC Rate 2021, 2020, 2019 0.5, 0.6, 0.5

PC Rate 2021, 2020, 2019 6.9, 7.7, 11.2

#12 West University Place (-4 )

Population 15,818

Median Income $250,000

VC Rate 2021, 2020, 2019 0.4, 0.1, 0.6

PC Rate 2021, 2020, 2019 7.8, 7.0, 8.7

#13 Memorial Villages (-4 )

Population 12,472

Median Income $85,092

VC Rate 2021, 2020, 2019 0.6, 0.3, 0.1

PC Rate 2021, 2020, 2019 6.0, 5.8, 6.9

#14 San Elizario (-11 )

Population 9,129

Median Income $33,588

VC Rate 2021, 2020, 2019 1.0, 0.4, N/A

PC Rate 2021, 2020, 2019 3.7, 3.1, N/A

#15 Keller (-1 )

Population 48,387

Median Income $133,266

VC Rate 2021, 2020, 2019 0.5, 0.5, 0.5

PC Rate 2021, 2020, 2019 7.2, 6.6, 6.3

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#16 Friendswood (+8 )

Population 40,735

Median Income $104,097

VC Rate 2021, 2020, 2019 0.6, 0.8, 0.9

PC Rate 2021, 2020, 2019 6.5, 8.2, 8.0