Safest Neighborhoods in Austin (2024)
Austin's open crime data has no reliable neighborhood population figure, so these Austin City Council districts are ranked by severity-weighted reported incident volume, not a per-person rate. The Austin City Council districts at the top of this list have the fewest reported incidents relative to other Austin Austin City Council districts.
Volume, not a safety rate. Austin City Council district resident population is not reliably available for a per-100k rate, so no safety grade is published for any zone (see /crime-rate/methodology §6.6). The geographic unit is the Austin City Council district (a policing/analysis boundary, not a resident-population neighborhood). relativeIndex ranks each zone by its VIOLENCE-WEIGHTED reported-incident volume (violent incidents weighted 3x property) against the other Austin zones — it is NOT population-adjusted and must not be read as a safety rate. Offenses are grouped into three coarse buckets (violent / property / other) via a keyword classifier.
Ranked lowest reported volume first
Not the same Austin City Council districts as the most dangerous neighborhoods in austin list.
- 1City Council District 8100/100
- 2City Council District 1095/100
- 3City Council District 695/100
- 4City Council District 582/100
- 5City Council District 760/100
- 6City Council District 249/100
- 7City Council District 145/100
- 8City Council District 418/100
- 9City Council District 30/100
- 10City Council District 90/100
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A high Crime Index score means lower reported crime relative to other US cities — it is not a guarantee of safety. Reported crime is not the same as actual crime. Research on the gap between crime that occurs and crime that gets reported to police — often called the "dark figure" of crime — estimates that roughly 40% of violent crime and about a third of property crime go unreported each year. Every index built on official statistics, including this one, necessarily undercounts real crime. That gap is exactly why homicide — the offense with the smallest dark figure — anchors the calculation instead of a more commonly reported but less reliable category like theft.
Scores on this page reflect FBI-reported data for 2024. See the full methodology →