Meyerland is a neighborhood of 65,800 residents in Houston, about 10 miles southwest of downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Meyerland in Houston safe?
Meyerland has more crime than most of the country: an overall CrimeGrade™ of C-, with more crime than the neighborhoods where 86% of Americans live. Violent crime grades C- and property crime C. Houston as a whole grades C-. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Meyerland run from A- to F, so check the map below.
C-
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 377 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
14% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Meyerland as a whole, and 86% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Meyerland scores 377.
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 Meyerland, Houston, TX at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Meyerland in Houston, 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 Meyerland
Robbery stands out among C-graded neighborhoods. For the typical resident of a C-graded US neighborhood, the figure is 1.3 robberies a year per 1,000 residents; Meyerland has 2.4.
Car thefts happen in parking lots and garages far more often than nationally. In Houston as a whole, 48% of reported car thefts happen in parking lots and garages, against 23% nationally.
How Meyerland compares within Houston
Crime varies widely across Meyerland: 40% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and 43% in areas graded D or F. Grades across Meyerland run from A- to F; 3% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
40%17%43%
A or B 40%C 17%D or F 43%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Meyerland has less crime than 33 of the 63 neighborhoods in Houston. It covers much of the Sugarland, Meyerland, and Westchase areas.
Is crime going up in Houston?
Reported violent crime in Houston as a whole peaked in 2020 and has fallen 14% since, back near its 2019 level. Property crime is down 5% from 2019. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults stayed at about 11 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 44 to 42 (US: 18). Neither changed much from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
HoustonUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Houston. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Houston
Violent, US
Property, Houston
Property, US
2016
-6%
+4%
-1%
+15%
2017
+1%
+4%
-5%
+12%
2018
-5%
+0%
-8%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
+18%
+4%
-3%
-8%
2021
+14%
+6%
-4%
-10%
2022
+4%
+5%
+3%
-6%
2023
-1%
+2%
+1%
-7%
2024
+1%
-4%
-6%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Meyerland
CrimeGrade™ estimates Meyerland has about 61 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 63% more than the US as a whole and 16% less than Houston 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.
The largest share of crime reported in Meyerland is assault, about 36% of the total. It also makes up the largest share of what crime costs here.
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 Houston
The Houston Police Department polices Meyerland; these figures cover Houston as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Houston as a whole, 53% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often in parking lots and garages: 55% of them, against 31% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (53%)
Night (midnight to 6 am)
Car theft
Parking lots and garages (48%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (55%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (43%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (38%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (54%)
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 Meyerland compares with nearby neighborhoods
Meyerland has less crime than 8 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods; only West University and Galleria-Uptown have less.
Two things set Meyerland apart: it has 0.2 bars and nightlife spots for every 1,000 residents, against 0.6 nationally, and 19 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole. Places like that tend to report less assault and robbery, yet assault and robbery run higher here than that would suggest.
Bars and nightlifeBars, lounges, clubs and casinos. Places with more bars tend to report more assault and robbery.0.2 per 1,000 residentsUS: 0.6Lower than for 76% of residents of US city neighborhoods
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.19 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 71% 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. 62% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.C- (28 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 61% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.8.7% of homesUS: 7.1%Higher than for 71% 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 Meyerland
Crime costs Meyerland about $2,068 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, 72% more 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 $179 million a year, or $2,724 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 Meyerland 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 Meyerland, Houston, TX average a SchoolGrade of C+: 46% of students test proficient, against 32% projected for schools like them. Overall, they exceed expectations. See schools in Meyerland on SchoolGrade
