I have recently moved, and I would like to know "How safe is the neighborhood I
live in?"  I live at 6551 Locke Ave. (zip 76116) in Fort Worth, Texas.  Thank
you for
responding to my question.  jd

Hello, JD. Congratulations on your recent move. 

Different sources provide different measurements about your city and 
neighborhood.

The ranking for your ZIP code, 76116, is four on a scale of one to ten. 
According to APB’s News Crime check, a four represents the lower end of a 
moderate risk for crime. A rating of “one indicates your risk of violent crime 
is less than one-fifth the national average.” A rating of  ten “indicates the 
risk is 10 times the national average or more."

http://www.apbnews.com/resourcecenter/datacenter/crimecheck/result.html?
zip=76116

According to the Relocation Crime Lab at HomeStore.com, “Fort Worth, Texas has 
a Relocation Crime Lab Index of 181 which is a higher crime rate than the 
national average.” 

Crime Category       1999 Figures

Robberies               246
Rapes                    61
Homicides                11
Aggravated Assaults	396
Motor Vehicle Thefts    764	
Crime Lab Index	        181	

Results, compiled from data reported for 1999 by various government, regional, 
and local sources, are available at:
 
http://www.homefair.com/homefair/servlet/ActionServlet?
pid=134&cid=homefair&fromCountry=USA&toCountry=USA&fromState=TX&toState=TX&previ
ousPage=133&fromCityPreSelect=&fromCity=4827000&toCity=4827000

Also, in Morgan Quitno Press' “8th Annual Safest City Award” ranking, Fort 
Worth was 239 out of 327 cities. This December 2001 survey analyzed six basic 
crime categories — murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and 
motor vehicle theft. 

http://www.morganquitno.com/cit02safe.htm


In 1993, the City of Fort Worth implemented a Neighborhood Patrol Officer 
Program to increase patrol officer and resident communication. For more 
information, contact Captain R. L. Parker at (817) 871-5005. 

Additional Websites that may interest you: 

Fort Worth Crime Statistics from the Fort Worth Police Department
http://www.fortworthpd.com/crime.htm

Monster Moving Fort Worth City Profile
http://www.monstermoving.com/Find_a_Place/Cityprofile/results.asp?City=1330

Search Terms Used: 
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Relocation

Best of luck in your new neighborhood,

Zrica

It is foolish to give out your address like that. Also, are you talking safety
just in terms of crime, or other safety factors as well?
 
However, I do have a page that will help answer your question in a way other
than raw crime statistics for your city. Take a look at this page:
http://www.ersys.com/usa/48/4827000/index.htm 
 
Now, click on the different Demographics on the left hand side of the screen.
You've got age, density, education, ethnicity, families, growth, income, and
skills. And they are overlayed onto a map so you can see exactly where you area
fits and how it relates to the areas around it. When I buy my next home, I'm
going to use this data, for sure!
 
BTW, you can also pull up air quality, general radon risk, and a few other
things. Interesting stuff. It probably doesn't COMPLETELY answer your question,
but that'll give you a few good things to go on. I would have done some more
research and given a real ANSWER to your question, but I'm not authorized to do
that yet. 
 
Enjoy the website. Who knows HOW they make money off of it.

This site will produce an assessment of your RELATIVE risk of crime, based on 
your zipcode:

http://www.apbnews.com/index.html

The rating for zipcode 76116 came out as a '4' on a scale of 1-10, where 1 is 
the least risk (less than 1 fifth the national average), and 10 is the highest 
risk (10 times the national average!).  A rating of '4' corresponds to a low-
moderate risk (i.e. it was at the bottom end of the 'moderate' risk band), so I 
would conclude that your neighbourhood is 'averagely safe', or perhaps even 
slightly better than average!

The rating is calculated on various demographic (social) factors that have been 
shown to be strongly correlated with crime, rather than just on historical 
crime statistics.

As the website points out, however, the risk is not necessarily uniform across 
the whole area encompassed by the zip-code - there could be 'pockets' of higher 
risk, where a disproportionate number of crimes occur - equally, there might be 
favoured areas, where the risk is lower (perhaps because they're next to a 
police station? ;-) )

AACTUAL crime statistics for the whole of Fort Worth are given on the Fort 
Worth Police Department website, here, together with a comparison against 
recent years, so that you can see whether trends are improving or declining:

http://www.fortworthpd.com/crime.htm

One thing you CANNOT do from this, however, is deduce what percentage of 
incidents occurred in your particular district - it might, potentially, have 
been hardly any!

The following page summarises IMPROVEMENTS in the Fort Worth crime rate in the 
10-year period to 1996:

http://www.ncpc.org/tour20/ftworth.htm

If you had mentioned where you had moved FROM, I could have entered he details 
into this neat litle calculator for you, which will provide a comparison of 
crime rates in your old and new locations:

http://www.homefair.com/homefair/calc/crime.html

Acording to this site, Fort Worth as a whole has a crime index of 181, which 
means its crime rate is 1.81 times the national average.  But bearing in mind 
that MOST cities will have an index significantly above the average, I don't 
think this should give you undue cause for concern.

Hope this has been of some help, and PLEASE don't worry - I have seen nothing 
in my research to indicate that your location is the new Crime Capital of the 
World!

Louise

Greeting John,

First of all I want to say I’m a French person so I apologize for my English 
writing.

According to Gomez study for Summer / Fall / Winter 2000 and Spring 
2001, your regional crime score is 4 out of 10 as Zrica say but 
unfortunately, district 76116 (Ft Worth) is ranked 7 out of 10.

For the fun of it, if your home has been build before 1995 you can take a 
look at it at the following URL:
http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.asp?S=13&T=1&X=404&
Y=2264&Z=14&W=2

You will find interesting information on demographic profiling for district 
76116 at the following URL: (Use the pulldown to consult the 3 differents 
demographic groups in your region)
http://homeadvisor.msn.com/pickaplace/demographicdetail.aspx?zip=
76116&id=48&NHname=Ft%20Worth%20%2876116%29&county=
Tarrant&sState=TX&sregion=

Finally you can have a summary details of your neighborhood through 
MSN HomeAdvisor :
http://homeadvisor.msn.com/pickaplace/nf_details.aspx?search=1&zip=
76116

Hope you find this interesting. Have a nice day!

- Anashel