Moving to Austin - what Zipcodes or areas to avoid? (Spring: crime, houses)

[rh311]

Yeah of course you can live there. I lived in the South Austin area and it's not like I got shot on sight or violence took place every second of the day but things can happen. Just be cautious to those who decide to live in those areas because if something does happen, well that's on your part. :\

[rh311]

Yeah of course you can live there. I lived in the South Austin area and it's not like I got shot on sight or violence took place every second of the day but things can happen. Just be cautious to those who decide to live in those areas because if something does happen, well that's on your part.

[eepstein]

As a general rule, avoid every zip code in Metro Austin that doesn't include the central core of Austin or Avery Ranch.

Originally Posted by rh311

Yeah of course you can live there. I lived in the South Austin area and it's not like I got shot on sight or violence took place every second of the day but things can happen. Just be cautious to those who decide to live in those areas because if something does happen, well that's on your part.

[austinite45]

Originally Posted by beck2089

Moving to austin. I just wanna know which places to absolutely avoid. I'm gonna be getting an apartment, so I need some good areas where a 19 year old can live alone, safely. Some suggestions free of gangs or theft...(i know thats a lot to ask)... would be appreciated.

Any area with zip code starting 787xx.

[jacksonian]

Everyone keeps saying that 78704 is much safer than 78702, but according to this data composed from last year, there was actually slightly more overall crime in 78704 (11,357 offenses) than 78702 (10,301 offenses):
http://malford.ci.austin.tx.us/polic...e/zip_2008.pdf

78704 had higher burglary (+27%), theft (+61%), and motor theft (+7%) reports.
78702 had higher murder (2 offenses), robbery (+52%), and aggravated assault (+62%) reports.
They were tied for number of rape (14 offenses) reports.

[CptnRn]

Crime in Austin
http://www.city-data.com/forum/austi...me-austin.html

Downtown Violent Crime
http://www.city-data.com/forum/austi...ased-some.html

[verybadgnome]

Zip codes are too big a geographic unit to consider when deciding if a place is high crime or low crime.

APD's Crime Viewer is a good way to find out what is going on in a particular neighborhood:

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[calel]

I never experienced any property crime until I moved to the suburbs (Anderson Mill). Never had any problems living in apartments off Riverside, except for the occasional college kid offering up marijuana from his doorway.

[jacksonian]

I wasn't trying to paint Austin as a dangerous place. You don't have it near as bad as here in Jackson, and we only have around 176k people living in the city (around 500k in the metro).

[Mister_Vegas]

Like you I am considering a move to Austin as well... we are in a different situation as we are a little older than you (in our 30's) but we have a young child so obviously we want safe areas as well. Fortunately I know somebody who lives there that is also a cop. He told me the city as a whole is extremely safe, one of the safest in the country. I think we are going to check in Round Rock which apparently is very nice. Really the only area and I think it's a suburb to avoid was Del Valle, he said the area was sketchy and the schools were not very good.