The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in San Antonio, TX
The San Antonio metro area, the 24th-largest in the US, is home to 2.66 million residents; San Antonio itself is the second-largest city in Texas · Updated November 2026
Is San Antonio, TX safe?
Crime in the San Antonio area is moderate, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of B. Most US neighborhoods have little crime: 72% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime than the San Antonio area. Violent crime grades B+ and property crime B-. The city of San Antonio itself grades C. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within the San Antonio area run from A+ to F, so check the map or the safest and least safe places below.
B
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 667 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
28% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than the San Antonio area as a whole, and 72% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. The San Antonio area scores 667.
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 San Antonio, TX at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in the San Antonio area, 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 the San Antonio area
Car thefts run high in Prospect Hill, Northwest Los Angeles Heights & Los Angeles Heights-Keystone. In this part of central San Antonio, they run at more than double the rate in the rest of San Antonio.
Thefts from cars happen at stores and businesses far more often than nationally. In the San Antonio area, 35% of reported thefts from cars happen at stores and businesses, against 10% nationally.
The safest and most dangerous places in the San Antonio area
Crime varies widely across the San Antonio area: 59% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and 26% in areas graded D or F. Grades across the San Antonio area run from A+ to F; 30% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
59%15%26%
A or B 59%C 15%D or F 26%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Neighborhood areas of the city of San Antonio, ranked by overall CrimeGrade™; beside each grade is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer). Each one combines several of the smaller areas on the map.
Cities and towns in the San Antonio metro area with at least 1,000 residents. Ranked by overall CrimeGrade™; beside each grade is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer), and the other numbers are residents.
Across the area, the Boerne, Helotes, and Fair Oaks Ranch areas have the least crime and the Pleasanton and Jourdanton areas the most.
Is crime going up in the San Antonio area?
Since 2019, reported violent crime in the San Antonio area is down 19%, while property crime has held about steady. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 5.2 to 4.2 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 33 to 32 (US: 18). In 2024 alone, violent crime fell 12% and property crime fell 13%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
San Antonio areaUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments across the San Antonio area. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, San Antonio area
Violent, US
Property, San Antonio area
Property, US
2016
+2%
+4%
+24%
+15%
2017
+1%
+4%
+15%
+12%
2018
-9%
+0%
-6%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
+5%
+4%
-13%
-8%
2021
+1%
+6%
-10%
-10%
2022
+14%
+5%
+7%
-6%
2023
-8%
+2%
+11%
-7%
2024
-19%
-4%
-3%
-15%
Crime rates and types in the San Antonio area
CrimeGrade™ estimates the San Antonio area has about 61 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 64% more than the US as a whole and 45% more 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 is the most common crime in the San Antonio area, about 39% 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 the San Antonio area
These figures come from the reports of the police departments across the San Antonio area, 2022 to 2024.
In the San Antonio area, 56% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (56%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Homes (60%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Homes (42%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (50%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (42%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (62%)
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 the San Antonio area compares with nearby metro areas
The San Antonio area has more crime than 8 of its 10 nearest metro areas. The El Paso area and the Tulsa area have the least crime nearby.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from the San Antonio area. Beside each overall CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with metro areas of similar size and density, the San Antonio area has more crime than 93% of them.
Empty homes, transit and density in the San Antonio area
The San Antonio area looks like a typical metro area on the traits that tend to go with crime.
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary.7.4% of homesUS: 7.1%Higher than for 76% of Americans in metro areas
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for the San Antonio area: D (15 of 100).5 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 58% of Americans in metro areas
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.19% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 55% of Americans in metro areas
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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.87% where people liveUS: 78%Lower than for 53% of Americans in metro areas
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 the San Antonio area
Crime costs the San Antonio area about $1,928 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, 60% more than the US figure of $1,205. The total is about $1.78 billion a year.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost rises to about $5.14 billion a year, or $1,931 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$296 million
$111
Rape
$100 million
$37
Robbery
$62 million
$23
Assault
$475 million
$178
Burglary
$91 million
$34
Theft
$320 million
$120
Vehicle theft
$236 million
$89
Arson
$5.4 million
$2
Vandalism
$199 million
$75
Total
$1.78 billion
$670
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 the San Antonio area 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. These figures cover the whole San Antonio metro area. 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 the San Antonio area average a SchoolGrade of C-: 42% of students test proficient, against 31% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in the San Antonio area on SchoolGrade
