Safest Neighborhoods in Austin (2024)
Austin's open crime data doesn't include a reliable neighborhood-level population figure, so these Austin City Council districts are ranked by reported incident volume, not a population-adjusted safety rate. A lower ranking here means fewer severity-weighted 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 to highest reported volume
Not the same Austin City Council districts shown on the most dangerous neighborhoods in Austin list.
- 1City Council District 3Vol. 0/100
- 2City Council District 9Vol. 0/100
- 3City Council District 4Vol. 18/100
- 4City Council District 1Vol. 45/100
- 5City Council District 2Vol. 49/100
- 6City Council District 7Vol. 60/100
- 7City Council District 5Vol. 82/100
- 8City Council District 10Vol. 95/100
- 9City Council District 6Vol. 95/100
- 10City Council District 8Vol. 100/100
No area has zero risk
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 →