Thunderbird Hills, San Antonio, TX Violent Crime Rates and Maps
Thunderbird Hills is a neighborhood of 10,900 residents in San Antonio, about 7 miles northwest of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Thunderbird Hills?
Violent crime is high in Thunderbird Hills: a B-, with more violent crime than the neighborhoods where 84% 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 549 of 1,000More violent crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
16% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Thunderbird Hills as a whole, and 84% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Thunderbird Hills scores 549.
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 Thunderbird Hills, San Antonio, TX at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Thunderbird Hills 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
What stands out about violent crime in Thunderbird Hills
Robberies and simple assaults both run high. In Thunderbird Hills, each runs at about triple the US rate: 2.1 robberies and 29.1 simple assaults a year per 1,000 residents, against 0.62 and 9.7 nationally.
How Thunderbird Hills compares within San Antonio
In Thunderbird Hills, 15% of residents live in areas graded A or B for violent crime, 31% in areas graded C and 54% in areas graded D or F. Violent crime grades across Thunderbird Hills run from B+ to D.
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A or B 15%C 31%D or F 54%
Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Thunderbird Hills has less violent crime than 72 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 Thunderbird Hills
CrimeGrade™ estimates Thunderbird Hills has about 38 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, about triple the rate for the US as a whole and 82% more 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 Thunderbird Hills, 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 Thunderbird Hills; 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 Thunderbird Hills and nearby neighborhoods
Thunderbird Hills has the least violent crime of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Thunderbird Hills. 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, Thunderbird Hills has more violent crime than 61% of them.
Jobs, density and walkability in Thunderbird Hills
Among the traits that tend to go with violent crime, one sets Thunderbird Hills apart: it has 106 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole. 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.106 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 89% 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.36% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 64% 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. 58% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.C- (30 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 57% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Bars and nightlifeBars, lounges, clubs and casinos. Places with more bars tend to report more assault and robbery.0.6 per 1,000 residentsUS: 0.6Higher than for 63% 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 Thunderbird Hills
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Thunderbird Hills about $33 million a year, or $3,063 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $7.7 million, or $711 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. Thunderbird Hills 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.
