Crime & Safety in Schertz
Schertz's crime picture, per NeighborhoodScout, is a genuinely mixed one worth stating precisely rather than in one direction: the city's overall crime rate runs higher than 55% of Texas cities and towns, yet is noticeably lower than the average for similarly sized U.S. communities -- meaning Schertz is less safe than a slight majority of Texas places generally, but safer than most cities its own size nationally.
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Learn moreOverall Crime Rate
NeighborhoodScout cites Schertz's overall crime rate at 10 crimes per 1,000 residents -- a 1-in-98 chance of being a victim of either violent or property crime in a given year (source: NeighborhoodScout Schertz/78154 crime data, retrieved August 2026). This is meaningfully lower, in both relative and absolute terms, than San Antonio's own citywide figure (52 per 1,000, a 1-in-19 chance, per San Antonio's crime-safety topic page) -- a real, sourced gap between the satellite city and the metro core.
Violent vs. Property Crime
NeighborhoodScout's breakdown puts Schertz's violent crime rate at 2 per 1,000 residents -- described by the source as about average for all U.S. communities of any size. Property crime runs higher, at 9 per 1,000, which the source describes as an above-average chance of becoming a property-crime victim compared with all other U.S. communities of any population size. In short: violent crime tracks the national norm here, while property crime runs somewhat elevated.
The Two-Sided Comparison
NeighborhoodScout's own framing is worth stating precisely: Schertz's crime rate is higher than 55% of Texas cities and towns of all sizes, but when compared only against similarly sized U.S. communities, Schertz runs noticeably lower than that peer-size average -- meaning Schertz is genuinely safer than most comparably sized cities nationally, even while ranking on the higher side within Texas specifically. Both framings are accurate; which one is more useful depends on whether the comparison set is "all Texas places" or "cities Schertz's own size."
Key takeaways
- NeighborhoodScout cites Schertz's overall crime rate at 10 per 1,000 residents, a 1-in-98 chance of being a victim of violent or property crime -- meaningfully lower than San Antonio's own citywide 1-in-19 figure.
- Violent crime (2 per 1,000) runs about average for U.S. communities of any size; property crime (9 per 1,000) runs above average nationally.
- Schertz's crime rate ranks higher than 55% of Texas cities and towns, yet noticeably lower than the average for similarly sized U.S. communities nationally -- both comparisons are real and worth stating together.
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