Night-time safety · Dallas · data through November 2026

Is Dallas safe at night?

55% of Dallas's reported incidents happen between 6pm and 6am, and 22% of them fall between midnight and 6am. That share swings from 24% to 75% depending on which neighborhood you are in — which is the whole point: the question worth asking is not whether Dallas is safe after dark, but where and by which route.

These figures describe when reported incidents happen, not how dangerous a street is. Somewhere with a night-time crowd reports more after dark because more people are there — that is a fact about footfall as much as about risk, and it is why the tables below show the count and the share side by side.

Most reported incidents after dark

Neighborhood	6pm–6am	Share	Index
1 Downtown	2,969	55%	9/100
2 Deep Ellum	2,495	75%	13/100
3 Bryan Place	1,483	67%	19/100
4 Bishop Arts	1,440	67%	19/100
5 Turtle Creek	1,325	59%	19/100
6 Henderson	1,260	56%	19/100
7 Kidd Springs	966	67%	27/100
8 Bachman/NW Highway	940	59%	24/100
9 Lowest Greenville West	926	55%	24/100
10 Cochran Heights	908	59%	26/100
11 Uptown	865	52%	25/100
12 Cedars	853	46%	22/100
13 Rawlins-Hall Group	763	57%	28/100
14 Vickery Place	740	64%	32/100
15 North Oaklawn	709	59%	30/100
16 Munger Place Historic District	698	55%	27/100
17 Ruthmeade Place	689	62%	32/100
18 Phillis Wheatley	674	47%	24/100
19 Swiss Ave Historic District	644	50%	29/100
20 Park Central	640	53%	29/100
21 Maple Lawn	636	51%	30/100
22 East Dallas For Affordable Housing	634	54%	29/100
23 Lakeland Hills	616	54%	31/100
24 Gilbert-Emory	602	55%	32/100
25 Santa Fe &	589	53%	30/100

Changes most after dark

Ranked by the share of reported incidents that fall between 6pm and 6am, against a Dallas median of 54%. A high share is not a high total — a quiet neighborhood whose few incidents mostly happen at night sits near the top — so the count is shown beside it.

Neighborhood	Night share	Incidents	Index
Deep Ellum	75%	3,329	13/100
Kidd Springs	67%	1,437	27/100
Bishop Arts	67%	2,152	19/100
Kiest Park Community Group	67%	249	67/100
Bryan Place	67%	2,224	19/100
Casa Linda	66%	139	78/100
St. Andrews	65%	250	66/100
Urbandale	65%	322	59/100
Vickery Place	64%	1,164	32/100
Wheatland Meadows/Wisdom Terrace	63%	217	68/100
Cedar Vista	63%	18	96/100
Ruthmeade Place	62%	1,104	32/100

Least night-weighted

Where what gets reported is most concentrated in daylight hours.

Neighborhood	Night share	Incidents
Preston Hollow West	24%	44
Devonshire	30%	207
Kleberg Neighborhood	30%	44
Royal Northaven	32%	63
Forest Hills	35%	71
Preston Royal NW	36%	279
Hockaday	37%	61
Royalwood Estate	38%	39

Common questions

Is Dallas safe to walk at night?

55% of Dallas's reported incidents happen between 6pm and 6am, and 22% fall in the small hours between midnight and 6am. That is a description of when incidents are reported, not a verdict on the city: the figure varies far more between neighborhoods than it does between cities, from 24% to 75% here. The useful question is which neighborhood and which route, not whether a whole city is safe.

Which neighborhood in Dallas has the most reported crime at night?

Downtown, with roughly 2,969 reported incidents between 6pm and 6am — 55% of its total. Somewhere busy usually tops this list because more people are out, so read it alongside the daytime picture on its own page rather than on its own.

Which neighborhood changes most after dark?

Deep Ellum is the most night-concentrated in Dallas: 75% of what is reported there happens between 6pm and 6am, against a Dallas median of 54%. A high share does not mean a high total — a quiet neighborhood whose few incidents mostly happen at night will rank high here — which is why the table shows the count beside it.

How does SafeRoute use this at night?

The app scores each walking route against the same Dallas PD data, and can weight it toward the time you are actually walking rather than a flat all-day average. It also shows how much of each route runs on lit streets, and lets you share a walk.

Methodology

Every incident reported to the Dallas Police Department carries an occurrence time, which is bucketed into daytime (6am–6pm), evening (6pm–midnight) and the small hours (midnight–6am), split weekday against weekend, and weighted by severity so violence counts for more than shoplifting. A neighborhood's night share is the weighted proportion falling between 6pm and 6am; its night count is that share applied to its total. The city-wide chart weights each neighborhood by its own volume, so a busy centre is not averaged against a quiet suburb as though they were the same size.

Each incident reported to the Dallas Police Department (via Dallas Open Data) is weighted by severity — violence counts for more than shoplifting. For every neighborhood we sum weighted incidents within 1 km of its center over the last twelve months, and normalize against Dallas's own rates onto a 0–100 index, higher = safer. The scale is calibrated to Dallas and cannot be read against another city's number. Boundaries are the City of Dallas GIS registry of neighborhood associations, cleaned to place names — "Deep Ellum Community Association" is published as Deep Ellum. That registry covers the parts of Dallas that organized, not every square mile, so this is a guide to the neighborhoods it names rather than a map of the whole city, and a few pages describe overlapping ground. Where a published center sat in parkland or a creek corridor rather than among houses, it has been moved to the deepest built-up point inside the same boundary. Time-of-day charts use Dallas PD occurrence times, severity-weighted. Pages regenerate as new data is published.