Crime & Safety in Allen
Allen's crime picture is genuinely strong by both trend and comparison: crime dropped 22.6% in 2025, giving Allen the lowest per-capita crime rate among Texas cities with populations over 80,000, per City of Allen reporting. CrimeGrade.org's 2026 analysis rates Allen's citywide safety as 'Very Safe (A)' with an overall crime grade of A-, and daily crimes in Allen run more than twice as low as both the Texas and national averages.
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Learn moreA Documented, Multi-Year-Consistent Low Crime Rate
Crime in Allen fell 22.6% in 2025, per the City of Allen's own reporting, bringing the city's crime rate to 7.59 offenses per 1,000 residents -- the lowest per-capita rate among Texas municipalities with populations over 80,000. CrimeGrade.org's separate 2026 analysis cites a violent crime rate of 2.848 per 1,000 residents and a property crime rate of 20.4 per 1,000 (versus a national property-crime average of 35.4) in a typical year -- different methodologies producing different specific numbers, but consistently describing Allen as a low-crime city rather than disagreeing about the overall picture.
How Allen Compares to State and National Averages
Per CrimeGrade.org, daily crimes in Allen run 2.47 times lower than the Texas state average and 2.15 times lower than the national average; violent crimes specifically run 3.66 times lower than the Texas average and 3.38 times lower than the national average. These are large, favorable gaps, consistently sourced across the City of Allen's own reporting and independent third-party crime-data aggregators, not a single outlier claim.
Neighborhood-Level Consistency
CrimeGrade.org's 2026 analysis of 50 individually graded Allen neighborhoods found 46 received an A grade (92%) and 2 received a B grade (4%) -- 96% of graded Allen neighborhoods rated safe or better, a genuinely consistent result across the city rather than a citywide average masking pockets of much higher risk. This site does not name any specific neighborhood as lower-graded; anyone evaluating a specific address should consult a block-level tool (CrimeGrade.org, NeighborhoodScout, or the Allen Police Department's own published data) directly.
Context Within This Site's DFW Batch
Allen's low-crime profile is consistent with the safety framing already established for this site's other affluent DFW satellites, particularly Southlake, in this site's DFW-satellite base record. Allen's specific distinction -- the lowest per-capita crime rate among Texas cities over 80,000 population as of 2025 -- is a genuinely notable, directly sourced claim rather than a general 'safe suburb' characterization.
Key takeaways
- Crime in Allen fell 22.6% in 2025, giving it the lowest per-capita crime rate (7.59 offenses per 1,000 residents) among Texas cities with populations over 80,000, per the City of Allen.
- CrimeGrade.org's 2026 analysis cites Allen's daily crime rate as 2.47x lower than the Texas average and 2.15x lower than the national average; violent crime specifically runs 3.66x lower than the Texas average and 3.38x lower than the national average.
- 96% of the 50 individually graded Allen neighborhoods in CrimeGrade.org's 2026 analysis earned an A or B grade -- a consistent result across the city, not a citywide average masking outliers.
- This page does not name any specific neighborhood as higher- or lower-crime -- use a block-level tool for any specific address.
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