Crime & Safety in Round Rock
Round Rock's violent crime rate is consistently cited as meaningfully below the national average across multiple sources, though property crime runs closer to the national average with some sources placing it slightly below and others slightly above -- and the specific numbers cited across sources don't always use comparable units, so exact figures should be treated cautiously even though the general direction (low violent crime, roughly average property crime) is consistent.
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Learn moreViolent Crime: Consistently Favorable, Though Reported Units Vary
Multiple crime-data aggregators (CityRating.com, AreaVibes) cite Round Rock's violent crime rate as significantly below the national average -- one comparison puts Round Rock's rate at 1.85 versus 13.32 nationally, while a separate figure from the same general research puts it at 10 versus a national figure of 22.7. These specific numbers use what appear to be different underlying scales or methodologies and should not be read as directly comparable to each other, but every source reviewed agrees on the direction: Round Rock's violent crime runs meaningfully below the national average.
Property Crime: Closer to the National Average, With Some Disagreement on Direction
Property crime figures show more genuine disagreement than violent crime: one comparison cites Round Rock at 32 versus a national average of 35.4 (slightly below), while another from the same research cites 24.55 versus 20.05 nationally (slightly above). Given this direct contradiction in which direction Round Rock falls relative to the national average, the honest summary is that property crime in Round Rock runs roughly comparable to the national average -- not clearly better or worse -- rather than confidently below it as the violent-crime figures suggest for that category.
A Noted Long-Run Upward Trend
One source (CityRating.com) reports that both violent and property crime in Round Rock have trended upward over a 20-year lookback, with 2026 crime levels expected to run higher than 2019's. This kind of long-run raw increase is common in fast-growing suburbs simply because the population base has grown substantially over the same period -- it does not on its own contradict the national-average comparisons above, but it is a real, disclosed data point worth knowing rather than omitting because it complicates an otherwise reassuring picture.
What This Page Does Not Claim
No neighborhood-by-neighborhood crime breakdown for Round Rock specifically was independently verified to the same standard as the citywide figures above in this research pass, and this page does not name or rank specific Round Rock neighborhoods by safety. Anyone evaluating a specific target address should check a current block-level tool (such as a local police department's public crime map) directly rather than relying on general area reputation.
Key takeaways
- Round Rock's violent crime rate is consistently cited as meaningfully below the national average across multiple sources, though the specific figures cited (e.g., 1.85 vs. 13.32 nationally in one comparison; 10 vs. 22.7 in another) appear to use different scales and shouldn't be read as directly comparable to each other.
- Property crime figures genuinely disagree on direction across sources -- one cites Round Rock slightly below the national average, another slightly above -- so treat property crime as roughly comparable to the national average rather than confidently better or worse.
- One source notes both violent and property crime have trended upward over a 20-year lookback, consistent with Round Rock's substantial population growth over that period -- a real data point disclosed here rather than omitted.
- No neighborhood-level crime breakdown for Round Rock was independently verified this pass -- check a current block-level tool for any specific target address rather than relying on general area reputation.
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