Hurst is a city of 49,600 in Tarrant County, about 20 miles west of downtown Dallas · Updated November 2026
Is Hurst, TX safe?
Yes. An overall CrimeGrade™ of A- means crime in Hurst is low. Most US neighborhoods have little crime too, so Hurst sits near the middle: 44% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime, and 56% in neighborhoods with less. Violent and property crime both grade A- here. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Hurst run from A to B-, so check the map below.
A-
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 805 of 1,000About as safe as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
44% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Hurst as a whole, and 56% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Hurst scores 805.
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 Hurst, TX at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Hurst, 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 Hurst
Car thefts run high for an A-graded city. Hurst has 2.7 car thefts a year per 1,000 residents; for the typical resident of an A-graded US city, the figure is 0.93.
Reported rape is the exception. Hurst grades A- for violent crime, but reported rape grades B-, worse than in the neighborhoods where 86% of Americans live.
The safest and least safe parts of Hurst
Every part of Hurst where people live grades A or B on the national scale. Grades across Hurst run from A to B-; 40% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
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A or B 100%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Within Hurst, the north side has the least crime and the east side the most.
Is crime going up in Hurst?
Since 2019, reported violent crime in Hurst is up 59% and property crime is down 39%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 2.2 to 3.5 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 36 to 22 (US: 18). In 2024 alone, violent crime rose 36% and property crime fell 11%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
HurstUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police department that serves Hurst. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Hurst
Violent, US
Property, Hurst
Property, US
2016
+11%
+4%
+14%
+15%
2017
+1%
+4%
+8%
+12%
2018
+11%
+0%
+0%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
+10%
+4%
-30%
-8%
2021
-12%
+6%
-36%
-10%
2022
+11%
+5%
-35%
-6%
2023
+17%
+2%
-32%
-7%
2024
+58%
-4%
-40%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Hurst
CrimeGrade™ estimates Hurst has about 35 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 7% less than the US as a whole and 18% less than Texas.
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 makes up about 44% of crime reported in Hurst. Assault is less common but 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 Hurst
Hurst has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
In Hurst, 41% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often at homes: 42% of them, against 34% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Stores and businesses (47%)
Night (midnight to 6 am)
Car theft
Parking lots and garages (36%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Homes (42%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Vandalism
Homes (44%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (52%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Aggravated assault
Homes (51%)
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 Hurst compares with nearby cities
Hurst has less crime than 5 of its 10 nearest cities.
One thing sets Hurst apart: it has 16.7 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally. Places like that tend to report more theft; here theft sits near the national middle.
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft.16.7 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 92% of US city residents
Lit at nightSatellite images show which neighborhoods are lit at night, a sign of busy streets and businesses. Brightly lit places tend to report more theft and vandalism.100% where people liveUS: 78%Higher than for 92% of US city residents
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. 74% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D+ (23 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 68% of US city residents
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Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.2.2 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 68% of US city residents
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.28% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 66% of US city residents
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft and robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Hurst: F (1 of 100).under 1 trip an hourUS: noneLower than for 60% of US city residents
BestNeighborhood, a sister site of CrimeGrade™, ranks the neighborhoods of Hurst on shops, parks, home prices, getting around and more.
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 Hurst
Crime costs Hurst about $1,005 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, 17% 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 $52 million a year, or $1,057 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$1.9 million
$39
Rape
$1.9 million
$38
Robbery
$680,000
$14
Assault
$5.8 million
$118
Burglary
$910,000
$18
Theft
$3.9 million
$78
Vehicle theft
$2.0 million
$41
Arson
$42,000
$1
Vandalism
$1.1 million
$23
Total
$18 million
$369
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 Hurst 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
Published research on what crime costs victims and communities
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 Hurst, TX average a SchoolGrade of A: 60% of students test proficient, against 45% projected for schools like them. Overall, they exceed expectations. See schools in Hurst on SchoolGrade
