Most dangerous hoods/neighborhoods/cities in Texas?? (Houston, Dallas: crime rate, school district)

[mfs713]

I know there is crime in areas like the 3rd Ward, 5th Ward, Sunnyside, south Park and other places like that but I live in Acres Homes which is on the Northwest side of Houston. Population is roughly 23.5 thousand. The part that i live in has been called one of the top 3 places in Houston with the highest crime rate. People say that if you keep to your self in this place, nobody will mess with you. Well, that is mostly true, but many people will try to start **** if you look at them. They will start saying stuff to you. Just ignore them ank keep walking. But, if they run up on you, there is not much else you can do but fight and hope they aint packing. The apartments are the worst place to live in in the area. Back in August 07, in just 4 days in one appartment complex, police made over 150 drug related arrests. Just for drugs. So if you are tryin to move in or are just coming thru, be careful and you should probably be with a friend who can also fight.

[mfs713]

Originally Posted by elvalle_mayne

Port Arthur generally does not have a high crime rate compared to other small cities in Texas.

Port Arthur:
Population: 55,313 (2007)
Overall Crime Rates (Top 3 Years): 498.9 (2003), 470.5 (2005), 446.8 (2000)
Avg. Crime Rate: 472.0

Edinburg:
Population: 68,724 (2007)
Overall Crime Rates (Top 3 Years): 770.9 (2004), 703.9 (2003), 605.8 (2001)
Avg. Crime Rate: 693.5

Pharr:
Population: 63,681 (2007)
Overall Crime Rates (Top 3 Years): 498.0 (1999), 461.5 (2002), 459.5 (2000)
Avg. Crime Rate: 473.0

Weslaco:
Population: 32,497 (2007)
Overall Crime Rates (Top 3 Years): 556.1 (2001), 541.4 (2003), 499.0 (2005)
Avg. Crime Rate: 532.1

McAllen:
Population: 127,245 (2007)
Overall Crime Rates (Top 3 Years): 491.9 (2001) 482.8 (2002), 469.0 (2004)
Avg. Crime Rate: 481.2

Alice:
Population: 19,759 (2007)
Overall Crime Rates (Top 3 Years): 806.5 (2003), 672.4 (2004), 629.3 (2005)
Avg. Crime Rate: 702.7

Rankings Based on Overall Crime Rate Avg. of Top 3 Crime Years:
1. Alice - 702.7
2. Edinburg - 693.5
3. Weslaco - 532.1
4. McAllen - 481.2
5. Pharr - 473.0
6. Port Arthur - 472.0

I would say anything under 500 for a crime rate is good for a city's image. Houston's crime rate averages roughly 650 overall for their three highest years for crime. Crime-ridden cities such as Detroit average over 1,000 for their crime rates on a consistent yearly basis.

Yes but you have to take population and city size into account. A smaller population will have a higher average crime rate in comparison to the number of people. Area too. people that live closer together will be more inclined to commit srimes than people who live farther appart.

[An0nym0us88]

Originally Posted by gabetx

The northside and westside in corpus are pretty bad...

But is it the most dangerous as the title of the thread described?

It's funny to see people like to say something about their own cities and say it's one the worst or the best but that's good then. Houston or Dallas has got to be the worst period.

[Pontificator]

Mine. If you show up unannounced, in the middle of the night.

[gabetx]

Originally Posted by An0nym0us88

But is it the most dangerous as the title of the thread described?

It's funny to see people like to say something about their own cities and say it's one the worst or the best but that's good then. Houston or Dallas has got to be the worst period.

No, I am sure it's not one of the worst or most dangerous in TX. But I just thought I'd throw it out there.

[thecatwilbotd]

What about Big Spring tx? They only have about 25000 people but there is a drive by or some kind of robbery every week.

[TexasTheKid]

The worst town is Cut And Shoot. If they don't cut ya, they'll shoot ya. Most of the time, they'll do both... hence the conjunction and.

[raymondm]

Man worst neighborhoods are in houston, I've lived in dallas and its not bad as they make it seem. If dallas had a place like the southwest, dallas police wouldn't know what to do. But in my young life I've seen so much violence I though it was normal, until I got out of houston and realized its not. I grew up in greenspoint back when it was called gunpoint, and back when people use to play pool in the old apple tree store. Then I lived in the hiram clarke area, and fondren area and seen homocides, carjackings, shoot outs and anything else you can think of. Houston has 2.4 million people with 400 or so homocides while new york has 500 or so homocides but has 8 million plus. That says a lot about crime in houston.

[texan55]

if you want to go by avg. crime rate...

south padre island takes the cake

1978.5 for 2007

but that would be because of spring break.

[elvalle_mayne]

Originally Posted by mfs713

Yes but you have to take population and city size into account. A smaller population will have a higher average crime rate in comparison to the number of people. Area too. people that live closer together will be more inclined to commit srimes than people who live farther appart.

No, they work off a 100,000 ratio.

Example:
City 1:
Population - 200,000
Murders - 50
Murders PER 100,000 - 25 (50/2.00000)

City 2:
Population - 100,000
Murders - 20
Murders PER 100,000 - 20 (20/1.00000)

City 3:
Population - 10,000
Murders - 1
Murders per 100,000 - 10 (1{100,000/10,000}) > 1(10)

City 4:
Population - 2,000,000
Murders - 150
Murders per 100,000 - 7.5 (150/{2,000,000/100,000})> 150/20


I did a huge thesis on crime rates and statistics, they are not biased towards any particular city as far as size. The only way data can be manipulated is through tampered or incomplete police reports of stats.

The way it works is this way.
How many crimes PER 100,000 people in the city.

You divide the population by 100,000 the solution you get is what you divide your number of crimes by.

Example:

City A:
990,000 people
/100,000 = 9.9

Murders - 324
/ 9.9 = 32.7 murders per 100,000 residents
(9.9x100,000 = 990,000 and 32.7x9.9 = 324 {323.73})

City B:
66,000 people
/ 100,000 = 0.66

Murders - 16
/ 0.66 = 24.2

The argument about "small cities are closer so the density creates more crime" is a logical fallacy because the more dense a population or closer the population is compacted together actually creates a SAFER set of circumstances for a city. Because of the lack of spread, it's much easier for law enforcement to patrol because everybody is so closely compact together as opposed to larger cities where a lot of areas are spread so far away from each other. Why do you think safe cities/towns use the term "safe and TIGHT KNIT community" I found out that over 95% of all small cities that had high crime rates were partly due to low-economic stability within the city or poor social standards. In fact my study showed the more isolated/farther a way a people are the more likely they are to commit crimes. It's basic logic, you didn't act a fool when you were a kid at home when your mom and dad were around did you? No, you did it when they were far away and you were isolated.

Places such as Youngstown (OH), Gary (IN), and Flint (MI) with small populations and high crimes is due to poor economics. Steel industry shut downs created high poverty rates for these ares.

Other places such as Camden (NJ) and Compton (CA), generally aren't poor in the same sense or extremity as the above mentioned, but they are places with enough poverty to create crime but their problem is social standards i.e. lots of fatherless/single-parent homes and lack of youth programs.


You look at the top 10 most dangerous cities in America it's pretty diverse as far as having both big cities and small cities so you can't say the statistics are biased.