Southside is a neighborhood of 55,400 residents in Fort Worth, about 3 miles south of downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Southside in Fort Worth safe?
Southside is among the higher-crime places in the US: an overall CrimeGrade™ of D+, with more crime than the neighborhoods where 89% of Americans live. Violent crime grades D and property crime C-. Fort Worth as a whole grades B-. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Southside run from B to F, so check the map below.
D+
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 270 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
11% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Southside as a whole, and 89% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Southside scores 270.
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 Southside, Fort Worth, TX at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Southside in Fort Worth, 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 Southside
Reported rapes run high for a D-graded neighborhood. Southside has 1.3 reported rapes a year per 1,000 residents; for the typical resident of a D-graded US neighborhood, the figure is 0.48.
Vehicle theft at more than triple the US rate. Southside has 10.3 car thefts a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 nationally.
How Southside compares within Fort Worth
High crime is widespread across Southside: 51% of residents live in areas graded D or F, and 11% in areas graded A or B. Grades across Southside run from B to F; every part of Southside has more crime than the typical US neighborhood.
11%38%51%
A or B 11%C 38%D or F 51%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Southside has less crime than 3 of the 19 neighborhoods in Fort Worth. It covers much of the Southside, Sycamore, and TCU-West Cliff areas.
Is crime going up in Fort Worth?
Reported violent crime in Fort Worth as a whole peaked in 2021 and has fallen 21% since, back near its 2019 level. Property crime is down 2% from 2019. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 4.6 to 4.5 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts stayed at about 27 (US: 18). Neither changed much from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
Fort WorthUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Fort Worth. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Fort Worth
Violent, US
Property, Fort Worth
Property, US
2016
+15%
+4%
+21%
+15%
2017
+24%
+4%
+18%
+12%
2018
+12%
+0%
+5%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
+24%
+4%
+4%
-8%
2021
+26%
+6%
-2%
-10%
2022
+10%
+5%
+0%
-6%
2023
+7%
+2%
-3%
-7%
2024
-1%
-4%
-2%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Southside
CrimeGrade™ estimates Southside has about 85 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, more than double the rate for the US as a whole and 63% more than Fort Worth 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 Southside, about 33% of everything reported, but murder costs more, because each one does far 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 Fort Worth
The Fort Worth Police Department polices Southside; these figures cover Fort Worth as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Fort Worth as a whole, 51% 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
Homes (51%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Homes (37%)
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 (41%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (50%)
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 Southside compares with nearby neighborhoods
Southside has more crime than 7 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods. TCU-West Cliff and Arlington Heights have the least crime nearby.
Empty homes, nightlife and walkability in Southside
Two things set Southside apart: it has 13.0% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally, and 1.4 bars and nightlife spots for every 1,000 residents, against 0.6 nationally. Places like that tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson, and they run high here.
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.13.0% of homesUS: 7.1%Higher than for 89% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Bars and nightlifeBars, lounges, clubs and casinos. Places with more bars tend to report more assault and robbery.1.4 per 1,000 residentsUS: 0.6Higher 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. 50% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.C (35 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 51% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.81 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 84% 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 Southside
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Southside about $4,223 a year per household, more than triple 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 $280 million a year, or $5,057 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 Southside 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 Southside, Fort Worth, TX average a SchoolGrade of F: 29% of students test proficient, against 22% projected for schools like them. Overall, they don't meet expectations. See schools in Southside on SchoolGrade
