Crime & Safety in Fort Worth
Fort Worth's crime picture is genuinely mixed depending on which measure you look at: NeighborhoodScout's victim-odds figures for violent crime describe a city safer than most comparably sized U.S. cities, while the same source's overall combined crime-rate figure reads as high in absolute terms. Property crime -- vehicle theft and package theft specifically -- is the more consistent weak point, which tracks with a fast-growing Sun Belt city with heavy retail and entertainment-district traffic.
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Learn moreViolent Crime: Better Than the Headline Combined Number Suggests
NeighborhoodScout puts a Fort Worth resident's chance of being a violent-crime victim in a given year at about 1 in 220 (source: NeighborhoodScout, Fort Worth Crime Rates and Statistics, reviewed August 2026) -- and explicitly notes that, compared with other U.S. communities of similar population size, Fort Worth's violent crime rate reads as noticeably lower than average, making it safer than most comparably sized cities nationally. This is a meaningfully more favorable read than the city's combined overall crime-rate figure (below) suggests on its own.
The Combined 'Overall Crime Rate' Figure -- Read With Context
NeighborhoodScout also cites an overall combined crime rate (violent and property crime together) of about 31 per 1,000 residents, or roughly a 1-in-32 chance of being a victim of either -- a figure that sounds alarming presented alone, but blends the elevated property-crime rate (below) with the more favorable, similarly-sized-city-adjusted violent crime figure above. Presenting this combined figure without that context would be misleading; both numbers come from the same source and same review pass.
Property Crime: Where Fort Worth Underperforms
Property crime is the more consistently unfavorable category: NeighborhoodScout puts a resident's chance of being a property-crime victim at about 1 in 37 (a rate of 27 per 1,000), with vehicle theft and package theft specifically running above the national average. This tracks with Fort Worth's profile as a fast-growing Sun Belt city with substantial retail, entertainment-district (Stockyards, Sundance Square, Near Southside), and population-growth-driven vehicle traffic -- a different pattern than a small, slower-growing suburb.
Neighborhood-to-Neighborhood Variance
As in every city this size, citywide figures blend genuinely different neighborhoods, and block-level safety tools (CrimeGrade.org and similar) show real variance across Fort Worth's districts. This matters more for a relocation decision than the citywide average does -- anyone narrowing in on a specific address should check a block-level safety tool directly rather than relying on the citywide figure alone.
Key takeaways
- Violent crime: NeighborhoodScout puts victim odds at about 1 in 220, and explicitly notes Fort Worth is safer than most U.S. cities of similar population size.
- The combined overall crime-rate figure (about 31 per 1,000, 1-in-32 odds) sounds more alarming in isolation than the same-source violent-crime context supports -- read both figures together, not the headline number alone.
- Property crime is the more consistent weak point: about 1-in-37 odds (27 per 1,000), with vehicle theft and package theft specifically above the national average.
- Neighborhood-level variance is real -- check a block-level safety tool for a specific address rather than relying on the citywide average.
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