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Safety in Austin

Austin ranks T#87 of 134 US cities for staying safe, with a safety score of 35 — Some Fun. That puts it in the 36th percentile nationally and T#9 of 13 in Texas.

safety score
35
Some Fun
National rank
T#87 of 134
In Texas
T#9 of 13
Percentile
36th

The typical city scores 50 for staying safe; Austin sits 15 points below the median.

How safety is measured

Reported violent and property crime rates.

The safety score is the flip side of our crime measure — 100 minus the raw crime score — so a city with less of it scores higher.

Data sources: FBI Crime Data Explorer and city open-data crime portals.

Full methodology → Glossary The raw measurement is part of the Data plan →

Ranked around Austin

  1. #85 Milwaukee, WI 37
  2. #86 Norfolk, VA 36
  3. T#87 Austin, TX — this page 35
  4. #89 Indianapolis, IN 34
  5. #90 Dallas, TX 33

See the full leaderboard — The safest cities in America →

Top US cities for staying safe

  1. #1 Jackson, WY 100
  2. #2 Gilbert, AZ 99
  3. T#3 Boise, ID 98
  4. T#3 Santa Clarita, CA 98
  5. #5 Irvine, CA 97

More about Austin

Austin scores 67 overall (Fun) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: