Wolf Creek, Dallas, TX Violent Crime Rates and Maps
Wolf Creek is a neighborhood of 38,900 residents in Dallas, about 9 miles south of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Wolf Creek?
Violent crime is high in Wolf Creek: an F, with more violent crime than the neighborhoods where 96% of Americans live. Assaults make up 92% 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.
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Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 0 of 1,000More violent crime than nearly all US neighborhoodsi What this means
4% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Wolf Creek as a whole, and 96% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Wolf Creek scores 0.
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 Wolf Creek, Dallas, TX at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Wolf Creek 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 Wolf Creek
Robberies run high. Wolf Creek has robberies at about triple the US rate: 1.8 a year per 1,000 residents, against 0.62 nationally.
How Wolf Creek compares within Dallas
High violent crime is widespread across Wolf Creek: 92% of residents live in areas graded D or F, and 1% in areas graded A or B. Violent crime grades across Wolf Creek run from B to F.
92%
A or B 1%C 7%D or F 92%
Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Wolf Creek has less violent crime than 3 of the 24 neighborhoods in Dallas. It covers much of the Southwest Dallas, Winnetka Heights, and Wolf Creek areas.
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 Wolf Creek
CrimeGrade™ estimates Wolf Creek has about 33 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, more than double the rate for the US as a whole and 58% more than 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 Wolf Creek, about 92% 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 Dallas
The Dallas Police Department polices Wolf Creek; these figures cover Dallas as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Dallas as a whole, 33% of aggravated assaults happen at a home, against 53% nationally. Robberies happen most often at stores and businesses: 39% of them.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Robbery
Stores and businesses (39%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (33%)
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 Wolf Creek and nearby neighborhoods
Wolf Creek has more violent crime than 7 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods. West End Historic District and Farmers Market District have the least violent crime nearby.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Wolf Creek. 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, Wolf Creek has more violent crime than 95% of them.
Among the traits that tend to go with violent crime, two set Wolf Creek apart: it has a Walk Grade of D- (11 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole, and 0.1 bars and nightlife spots for every 1,000 residents, against 0.6 nationally. 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. 95% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D- (11 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 91% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Bars and nightlifeBars, lounges, clubs and casinos. Places with more bars tend to report more assault and robbery.0.1 per 1,000 residentsUS: 0.6Lower than for 80% 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.22% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 78% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Tree coverThe share of land under tree canopy where people live. Leafy neighborhoods tend to report less robbery.15% where people liveUS: 21%Higher than for 67% 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 Wolf Creek
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Wolf Creek about $189 million a year, or $4,864 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $36 million, or $931 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.
