Allandale is a neighborhood of 12,400 residents in Austin, about 6 miles north of downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Allandale in Austin safe?
Crime in Allandale is moderate, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of B+. Most US neighborhoods have little crime: 62% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime than Allandale. Violent crime grades better than property crime here, A- against B. Austin as a whole grades B. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Allandale run from A to D, so check the map below.
B+
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 763 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
38% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Allandale as a whole, and 62% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Allandale scores 763.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its crime with the people, homes and cars there, on one national scale, from green for the least crime to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy shopping center can show red while the homes beside it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a strong connection. Compare high speed internet in Allandale, Austin, TX at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Allandale in Austin, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out in Allandale
Car thefts happen in parking lots and garages far more often than nationally. In Austin as a whole, 44% of reported car thefts happen in parking lots and garages, against 23% nationally.
How Allandale compares within Austin
Low crime is the norm across Allandale: 95% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and 5% in areas graded D or F. Grades across Allandale run from A to D; 19% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
95%
A or B 95%D or F 5%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Allandale has less crime than 51 of the 61 neighborhoods in Austin. It covers much of the Allandale, Milwood, and North Shoal Creek areas and the Downtown Austin, West University Austin, and University of Texas areas.
Is crime going up in Austin?
Since 2019, reported violent crime in Austin as a whole is up 10% and property crime is down 14%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 4.2 to 4.6 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 38 to 32 (US: 18). Neither changed much from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
AustinUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Austin. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Austin
Violent, US
Property, Austin
Property, US
2016
-1%
+4%
-5%
+15%
2017
+1%
+4%
-13%
+12%
2018
-8%
+0%
-7%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
+19%
+4%
+1%
-8%
2021
+25%
+6%
-6%
-10%
2022
+29%
+5%
-5%
-6%
2023
+20%
+2%
-12%
-7%
2024
+10%
-4%
-14%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Allandale
CrimeGrade™ estimates Allandale has about 39 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, about the same as the US as a whole and 30% less than Austin as a whole.
Overall crime
Violent crime
Property crime
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. These figures include simple assaults and vandalism, which the FBI's violent and property crime rates leave out.
Theft is the most common crime in Allandale, about 46% of everything reported, but assault costs more, because each one does more harm.
Each CrimeGrade™ compares a crime with what it affects: people for assaults and robbery, homes for burglary, parked cars for vehicle theft. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Where and when crime happens in Austin
The Austin Police Department polices Allandale; these figures cover Austin as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Austin as a whole, 42% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often in parking lots and garages: 40% of them, against 31% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Stores and businesses (43%)
Night (midnight to 6 am)
Car theft
Parking lots and garages (44%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (40%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (34%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (39%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (49%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
How Allandale compares with nearby neighborhoods
Allandale has less crime than 9 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods; only Mesa Forest has less.
Two things set Allandale apart: it has 108 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole, and 18.7 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally. Places like that tend to report more theft and robbery; here theft sits near the national middle.
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.108 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 89% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft and car theft.18.7 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 87% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more theft and assault. 51% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.C (34 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 51% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.14% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 87% of residents of US city neighborhoods
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What crime costs Allandale
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Allandale about $918 a year per household, 24% less than the US figure of $1,205.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost comes to about $14 million a year, or $1,108 per resident.
How CrimeGrade™ works
A CrimeGrade™ shows how much crime an area has compared with the rest of the country, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most. Every neighborhood in the US is graded on the same scale, so a B in Allandale means the same as a B anywhere else.
CrimeGrade™ starts from the crimes people report to police and measures each kind of crime against what it affects: people for assaults, homes for burglaries, parked cars for car thefts.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
Schools in Allandale, Austin, TX average a SchoolGrade of A+: 72% of students test proficient, against 53% projected for schools like them. Overall, they greatly exceed expectations. See schools in Allandale on SchoolGrade
