Crime & Safety in Frisco
Frisco's crime picture is genuinely favorable, and sources reviewed this session agree on direction rather than conflicting the way they did for Houston: NeighborhoodScout puts a resident's combined odds of violent-or-property-crime victimization at about 1 in 91, and a separate crime-index source describes Frisco's overall crime rate as roughly 50% below the national average, with lower crime than 94% of comparably sized U.S. cities and a citywide safety grade of A ("Very Safe").
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Learn moreViolent Crime: Close to Average, Not Elevated
NeighborhoodScout cites Frisco's violent crime rate at about 1 per 1,000 residents, described as roughly average for all U.S. communities regardless of size -- a genuinely different picture than a large city carrying an above-average violent crime rate. This is consistent with, not contradicted by, the separate 50%-below-national-average overall crime rate cited by a different crime-index aggregator; violent crime specifically runs closer to the national average even as Frisco's combined (violent-plus-property) rate runs well below it.
Property Crime Is Frisco's Clearest Advantage
NeighborhoodScout cites Frisco's property crime rate at about 10 per 1,000 population, the category driving most of the gap between Frisco and the national average -- consistent with the separately cited combined violent-or-property victimization odds of about 1 in 91, among the more favorable readings for a city of Frisco's size per NeighborhoodScout's own framing.
A Citywide Breakdown, Not a Single Number
One 2026 neighborhood-level analysis graded 77 distinct Frisco neighborhoods individually: 72 (about 93.5%) earned an A grade, 4 (about 5.2%) earned a B grade, and 1 (about 1.3%) earned a C grade. The neighborhoods with the most elevated readings in that same 2026 dataset -- Stonebrook, Willow Pond, Woodstream, and Cypress Lake at Stonebriar -- still graded B to B+, not a poor or concerning grade; the honest takeaway is that even Frisco's relatively higher-crime pockets remain solidly safe by the same source's own scale, not that any specific neighborhood carries an elevated risk worth avoiding.
How This Compares to Other Cities in This Project
Frisco's crime profile is a genuinely different, more favorable picture than Houston's, which two independent sources described as running well above the national average even after a real 2025 improvement (see this project's Houston crime-safety page). This is a real, structural difference between a large, dense urban core and a newer, lower-density, high-income suburban city, not a case where one source is simply more optimistic than the other.
Key takeaways
- Frisco's combined violent-or-property crime victimization odds are cited at about 1 in 91 by NeighborhoodScout, with a separate source describing the overall crime rate as roughly 50% below the national average and lower than 94% of comparable U.S. cities.
- Violent crime specifically runs close to the national average (about 1 per 1,000 residents per NeighborhoodScout); property crime (about 10 per 1,000) is the category driving most of Frisco's overall below-average standing.
- A 2026 neighborhood-level breakdown of 77 Frisco neighborhoods found 93.5% earned an A grade and the remaining neighborhoods graded B to C -- even the relatively higher-crime pockets (Stonebrook, Willow Pond, Woodstream, Cypress Lake at Stonebriar) still graded B to B+, not poor.
- This is a genuinely more favorable crime picture than Houston's, reflecting a real structural difference between a dense urban core and a newer, lower-density suburban city -- not a case of one source being simply more optimistic.
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