Heritage, San Antonio, TX Violent Crime Rates and Maps
Heritage is a neighborhood of 15,100 residents in San Antonio, about 11 miles west of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Heritage?
Violent crime is high in Heritage: a B, with more violent crime than the neighborhoods where 80% of Americans live. Assaults make up 91% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. San Antonio as a whole grades C+ for violent crime.
B
Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 617 of 1,000More violent crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
20% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Heritage as a whole, and 80% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Heritage scores 617.
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 Heritage, San Antonio, TX at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Heritage in San Antonio, 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
How Heritage compares within San Antonio
Low violent crime is the norm across Heritage: 84% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and the rest in areas graded C. Violent crime grades across Heritage run from A- to C+.
84%16%
A or B 84%C 16%
Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Heritage has less violent crime than 83 of the 119 neighborhoods in San Antonio. It covers much of the Heritage, Villages of Westcreek, and Thunderbird Hills areas.
Is violent crime going up in San Antonio?
Reported violent crime in San Antonio as a whole has fallen 17% since 2019. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 7.1 to 5.9 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7). In 2024 alone, violent crime fell 15%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
San AntonioUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve San Antonio. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, San Antonio
Violent, US
2016
+1%
+4%
2017
-0%
+4%
2018
-12%
+0%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+14%
+4%
2021
+8%
+6%
2022
+24%
+5%
2023
-3%
+2%
2024
-17%
-4%
Violent crime rates and types in Heritage
CrimeGrade™ estimates Heritage has about 15 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 14% more than the US as a whole and 27% less than San Antonio 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 Heritage, 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 San Antonio
The San Antonio Police Department polices Heritage; these figures cover San Antonio as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In San Antonio as a whole, 61% of aggravated assaults happen at a home, against 53% nationally. Robberies happen most often at stores and businesses: 44% of them.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Robbery
Stores and businesses (44%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (61%)
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 Heritage and nearby neighborhoods
Heritage has less violent crime than 6 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Among the traits that tend to go with violent crime, two set Heritage apart: it has a Walk Grade of D (13 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole, and 12 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole. Places like that tend to report less assault, yet assault runs higher here than that would suggest.
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. 92% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D (13 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 87% of residents of US city neighborhoods
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more robbery.12 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 85% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery.20% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 80% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Heritage: C- (27 of 100).3 trips an hourUS: noneLower 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 violent crime costs Heritage
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Heritage about $22 million a year, or $1,458 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $4.8 million, or $316 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
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.
