CrimeMetric

Crime in Hidalgo, Texas

Major crime in Hidalgo is 29% below the U.S. rate per resident: 53% lower for persons crimes and 24% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.4% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
71
29% below the U.S. rate
37% below the Texas rate
down 8.4% in a year
Persons crimes
47
53% below the U.S. rate
53% below the Texas rate
down 7.2% in a year
Property crimes
76
24% below the U.S. rate
33% below the Texas rate
down 8.6% in a year
Social disorder
77
23% below the U.S. rate
28% below the Texas rate
down 5.8% in a year

Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.

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Crime by type

Rape / sexual assault stands out most, at 21% above the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Hidalgo for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across Hidalgo

The middle half of Hidalgo residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 39 and 64; the typical (median) resident's is 62.

Map of Hidalgo, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5040.6%
  • 50–10039.6%
  • 100–20019.8%
  • 200–4000.0%
  • 400+0.0%

Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.

When it happens

Highest on weekends

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm72
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am67
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm75
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am75
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 8.4% in a year; across Texas it fell 9.2%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-8.4%TX -9.2%-6.8%TX -8.6%
Persons crimes-7.2%TX -8.9%+6.4%TX +2.5%
Property crimes-8.6%TX -9.3%-8.7%TX -10.7%
Social disorder-5.8%TX -7.7%+1.1%TX -2.0%

Change in expected crimes, with Texas as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.

Similar-size places

Hidalgo against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents

1,080 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Hidalgo; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Opa-locka, FL15,992282
Dyersburg, TN16,014261
Moultrie, GA16,025193
Adelphi, MD15,96897
Hidalgo, TX15,98471
Dallas, GA15,95945

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Hidalgo has a higher major-crime index than 2 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Pharr (6 mi), is 8% above Hidalgo's rate.

Donna12 mi327
Alamo9 mi200
Palmview12 mi91
McAllen9 mi84
Pharr6 mi77
San Juan8 mi75
Hidalgo71
Mission9 mi65
Murillo13 mi63

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Hidalgo

What are the most common crimes in Hidalgo?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 81 a year), shoplifting (about 42 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 17 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 21% above the U.S. rate per resident.

How we calculated this

Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Hidalgo's figures add up its 9 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Hidalgo has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 0.0% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
  • Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
  • Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
  • Residents: 15,984. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Hidalgo, Texas." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/tx/hidalgo

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100