Northwest Dallas, Dallas, TX Violent Crime Rates and Maps
Northwest Dallas is a neighborhood of 22,500 residents in Dallas, about 17 miles northwest of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Northwest Dallas?
Violent crime is high in Northwest Dallas: a B+, with more violent crime than the neighborhoods where 72% of Americans live. Assaults make up 88% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. Dallas as a whole grades C for violent crime.
B+
Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 724 of 1,000More violent crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
28% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Northwest Dallas as a whole, and 72% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Northwest Dallas scores 724.
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 Northwest Dallas, Dallas, TX at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Northwest Dallas in Dallas, 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 Northwest Dallas
Robberies run high. Northwest Dallas has robberies at about triple the US rate: 1.8 a year per 1,000 residents, against 0.62 nationally.
How Northwest Dallas compares within Dallas
Low violent crime is the norm across Northwest Dallas: 93% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and 7% in areas graded D or F. Violent crime grades across Northwest Dallas run from A+ to D-.
93%
A or B 93%D or F 7%
Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Northwest Dallas has less violent crime than 19 of the 24 neighborhoods in Dallas. It covers much of the Eagle Ford area.
Is violent crime going up in Dallas?
Reported violent crime in Dallas as a whole has fallen 26% since 2019. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 8.8 to 6.6 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7). Violent crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
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Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Dallas. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Dallas
Violent, US
2016
-14%
+4%
2017
-13%
+4%
2018
-13%
+0%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+6%
+4%
2021
-2%
+6%
2022
-11%
+5%
2023
-23%
+2%
2024
-26%
-4%
Violent crime rates and types in Northwest Dallas
CrimeGrade™ estimates Northwest Dallas has about 22 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 65% more than the US as a whole and close to Dallas 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 Northwest Dallas, about 88% 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.
Violent crime in Northwest Dallas and nearby neighborhoods
Of the 10 neighborhoods closest to Northwest Dallas, 9 have less violent crime. Northeast Dallas and North Central Dallas have the least.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Northwest Dallas. Beside each violent crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Northwest Dallas is safer than 50% of them.
Jobs, nightlife and walkability in Northwest Dallas
Among the traits that tend to go with violent crime, two set Northwest Dallas apart: it has 295 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole, and 1.6 bars and nightlife spots for every 1,000 residents, against 0.6 nationally. Places like that tend to report more robbery, and it runs high here.
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more robbery.295 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 98% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Bars and nightlifeBars, lounges, clubs and casinos. Places with more bars tend to report more assault and robbery.1.6 per 1,000 residentsUS: 0.6Higher than for 89% 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 assault. 92% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D (13 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 88% 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.17% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 83% 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 Northwest Dallas
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Northwest Dallas about $59 million a year, or $2,620 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $12 million, or $543 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. Northwest Dallas is a good example: many people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks worse than its CrimeGrade™ suggests.
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.
