Night-time safety · Dallas · data through September 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 23% to 76% 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 reported incidents after dark

Neighborhood	6pm–6am	Share	Index
1 Downtown	2,981	56%	9/100
2 Deep Ellum	2,680	76%	13/100
3 Bryan Place	1,503	66%	19/100
4 Bishop Arts	1,436	67%	19/100
5 Henderson	1,339	57%	18/100
6 Turtle Creek	1,307	58%	19/100
7 Lowest Greenville West	1,003	57%	23/100
8 Kidd Springs	981	67%	26/100
9 Cochran Heights	950	59%	25/100
10 Bachman/NW Highway	905	58%	24/100
11 Uptown	872	52%	25/100
12 Cedars	850	46%	22/100
13 Rawlins-Hall Group	821	57%	27/100
14 Vickery Place	780	63%	30/100
15 Munger Place Historic District	773	57%	26/100
16 East Dallas For Affordable Housing	701	56%	28/100
17 Swiss Ave Historic District	696	52%	28/100
18 Ruthmeade Place	686	61%	31/100
19 North Oaklawn	681	57%	30/100
20 Phillis Wheatley	680	47%	24/100
21 Santa Fe &	641	55%	30/100
22 Maple Lawn	635	51%	31/100
23 Gilbert-Emory	624	54%	32/100
24 Park Central	618	55%	30/100
25 Knox Armstrong	595	55%	33/100

Changes most after dark

Ranked by the share of reported incidents that fall between 6pm and 6am, against a Dallas median of 53%. 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	76%	3,538	13/100
Cedar Vista	69%	18	96/100
Bishop Arts	67%	2,151	19/100
Kidd Springs	67%	1,471	26/100
Bryan Place	66%	2,262	19/100
Kiest Park Community Group	64%	242	68/100
Polk Terrace	64%	515	47/100
St. Andrews	64%	239	65/100
Kessler Plaza/Ravinia Heights	64%	490	50/100
Mountain Creek Neighborhood	63%	42	93/100
Vickery Place	63%	1,235	30/100
Belmont Addition Conservation District	63%	742	42/100

Least night-weighted

Where what gets reported is most concentrated in daylight hours.

Neighborhood	Night share	Incidents
Preston Hollow West	23%	41
Devonshire	35%	187
Preston Royal NW	38%	282
Royal Northaven	39%	59
Northaven Park , Inc.	39%	109
Hillcrest Forest	39%	230
Lochwood	40%	301
Prestonwood On The Park	40%	149

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 23% to 76% 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 2,981 reported incidents between 6pm and 6am — 56% 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: 76% of what is reported there happens between 6pm and 6am, against a Dallas median of 53%. 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 and check in on arrival.

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.