Far West, Fort Worth, TX Violent Crime Rates and Maps
Far West is a neighborhood of 39,600 residents in Fort Worth, about 9 miles west of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Far West?
Violent crime in Far West sits near the national middle: an A-, with more violent crime than the neighborhoods where 56% of Americans live. Assaults make up 91% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. Fort Worth as a whole grades B- for violent crime.
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Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 833 of 1,000About as much violent crime as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
44% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Far West as a whole, and 56% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Far West scores 833.
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 violent crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its violent crime with the people who spend time there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy downtown or nightlife strip can show red while the homes around it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a solid connection. Compare high speed internet in Far West, Fort Worth, TX at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Far West 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 about violent crime in Far West
Reported rapes run above the US rate. Far West has less violent crime than the US as a whole, 26% below the US rate, but more reported rapes: 0.48 a year per 1,000 residents, against 0.38 nationally.
How Far West compares within Fort Worth
Every part of Far West where people live grades A or B for violent crime on the national scale. Violent crime grades across Far West run from A+ to B-.
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Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Far West has less violent crime than 15 of the 19 neighborhoods in Fort Worth. It covers much of the Western Hills Fort Worth, Far West, and Arlington Heights areas and the Far Northwest area.
Is violent 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. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 4.6 to 4.5 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7). Violent crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Violent 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
2016
+15%
+4%
2017
+24%
+4%
2018
+12%
+0%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+24%
+4%
2021
+26%
+6%
2022
+10%
+5%
2023
+7%
+2%
2024
-1%
-4%
Violent crime rates and types in Far West
CrimeGrade™ estimates Far West has about 10.0 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 26% less than the US as a whole and 33% less than Fort Worth as a whole.
All violent crime
Assaults
Robbery
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Violent crime here includes simple assaults, which the FBI's violent crime rate leaves out.
Assault is the most common violent crime in Far West, about 91% of the total.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a violent crime with the people who spend time in an area, not only the people who live there. 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 violent crime happens in Fort Worth
The Fort Worth Police Department polices Far West; these figures cover Fort Worth as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Fort Worth as a whole, 50% of aggravated assaults happen at a home, against 53% nationally. Robberies happen most often at stores and businesses: 41% of them.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
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.
Violent crime in Far West and nearby neighborhoods
Far West has less violent crime than 9 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods; only Far Northwest has less.
Among the traits that tend to go with violent crime, two set Far West apart: it has a Walk Grade of D- (7 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole, and 75 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole. Places that are hard to get around on foot tend to report less assault; here assault sits near the national middle.
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 assault. 95% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D- (7 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 96% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Far West: F (2 of 100).under 1 trip an hourUS: noneLower than for 89% of residents of US city neighborhoods
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more robbery.75 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 82% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery.22% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 79% 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 violent crime costs Far West
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Far West about $38 million a year, or $958 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $8.2 million, or $206 per resident.
Billed cost of violent crime per resident, per year
How CrimeGrade™ works
The violent crime CrimeGrade™ covers murder, rape, robbery and assault, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each violent crime against the people who spend time in an area, so a busy downtown is graded on its workers and visitors as well as its residents.
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.
