Western Hills Fort Worth is a neighborhood of 47,200 residents in Fort Worth, about 7 miles west of downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Western Hills Fort Worth in Fort Worth safe?
Crime in Western Hills Fort Worth is high by national standards, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of C+. Most US neighborhoods have little crime: 81% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime than Western Hills Fort Worth. Violent and property crime both grade C+ here. Fort Worth as a whole grades B-. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Western Hills Fort Worth run from A- to F, so check the map below.
C+
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 512 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
19% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Western Hills Fort Worth as a whole, and 81% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Western Hills Fort Worth scores 512.
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 Western Hills Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Western Hills Fort Worth 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 Western Hills Fort Worth
Car thefts and burglaries both run high. In Western Hills Fort Worth, each runs at more than double the US rate: 7.2 car thefts and 5.6 burglaries a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 and 2.4 nationally.
How Western Hills Fort Worth compares within Fort Worth
Safety changes a lot from one part of Western Hills Fort Worth to the next: 47% of residents live in areas graded A or B, while 40% live in areas graded D or F. Grades across Western Hills Fort Worth run from A- to F; 2% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
47%13%40%
A or B 47%C 13%D or F 40%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Western Hills Fort Worth has less crime than 8 of the 19 neighborhoods in Fort Worth. It covers much of the Western Hills Fort Worth, Far West, and Arlington Heights areas and the Wedgwood area.
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 Western Hills Fort Worth
CrimeGrade™ estimates Western Hills Fort Worth has about 69 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 85% more than the US as a whole and 32% 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 Western Hills Fort Worth, about 35% 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 Fort Worth
The Fort Worth Police Department polices Western Hills Fort Worth; 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 Western Hills Fort Worth compares with nearby neighborhoods
Of the 10 neighborhoods closest to Western Hills Fort Worth, 7 have less crime. Far Southwest and Far West have the least.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Western Hills Fort Worth. Beside each overall CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Western Hills Fort Worth has more crime than 62% of them.
Empty homes, parking lots and walkability in Western Hills Fort Worth
One thing sets Western Hills Fort Worth apart: it has 13.9% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally. It also combines many stores and restaurants with a lot of parking-lot space: places with both tend to report more theft and car theft than places with only one of them, 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.13.9% of homesUS: 7.1%Higher than for 92% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.1.9 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 84% 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. 70% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D+ (24 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 66% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft and car theft.14.3 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 78% 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 Western Hills Fort Worth
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Western Hills Fort Worth about $1,814 a year per household, 50% 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 $121 million a year, or $2,570 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 Western Hills Fort Worth 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 Western Hills Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX average a SchoolGrade of D-: 34% of students test proficient, against 28% projected for schools like them. Overall, they don't meet expectations. See schools in Western Hills Fort Worth on SchoolGrade
