Healthcare & Safety in Killeen
Killeen's healthcare access includes both a real civilian regional hospital system (AdventHealth Central Texas / Metroplex Health System) and, through Fort Cavazos, on-post military medical facilities -- a genuinely different healthcare landscape than a purely civilian city. CrimeGrade rates Killeen roughly on par with the Texas average overall but below both state and national safety benchmarks for violent crime specifically.
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Learn moreA real civilian hospital system, plus a separate on-post military system
AdventHealth Central Texas (Metroplex Health System) is a 245-bed, multi-campus facility -- 148 acute-care beds in Killeen, 60 psychiatric beds nearby, and 25 beds at an affiliated Lampasas facility -- serving as the primary civilian healthcare provider for West Bell, Coryell, and Lampasas counties, with about 1,200 employees, 300+ physicians across 42 specialties, and more than 125,000 patients cared for annually. Separately, Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center serves the Fort Cavazos military community on-post -- a military facility outside this Tier B stack's civilian-market scope.
Crime data: mixed by measure -- overall on par with Texas, violent crime below both benchmarks
CrimeGrade.org rates Killeen's overall crime as roughly on par with the Texas state average but somewhat less safe than the national average (overall crime rate 1.91%, score 4/10). Violent crime specifically reads as below both Texas and national safety benchmarks (rate 0.53%, score 2/10), while property crime scores a 4/10 (rate 1.38%). The projected 2025 cost of crime citywide is about $96 million, roughly $567 per resident. This is a single-source (CrimeGrade) read -- cross-check against NeighborhoodScout or FBI/Texas DPS UCR data for a fuller picture before making a safety-related decision.
Key takeaways
- AdventHealth Central Texas (Metroplex Health System, 245 beds across its Killeen campus and affiliated facilities) is the primary civilian regional healthcare provider, serving 125,000+ patients a year -- separate from Fort Cavazos's own on-post military medical facilities (e.g., Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center).
- CrimeGrade rates Killeen's overall crime roughly on par with the Texas state average but below the national average; violent crime specifically reads below both Texas and national safety benchmarks.
- Projected 2025 cost of crime is about $567 per resident (CrimeGrade) -- a single-source estimate; cross-check against NeighborhoodScout or Texas DPS UCR data for a fuller picture.
- On-post military healthcare generally serves the military-connected population specifically rather than the general civilian public.
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