Texas · Neighborhood crime trends

Austin Southwest

Name: Crimes per 1,000 residents by neighborhood, Austin Southwest, Q1 2022 to Q2 2026
Creator: CrimesLog

19 neighborhoods - a quarterly race to the lowest crime rate.

Crime Trends: Neighborhoods compared - each quarter from Q1 2022

Austin as a whole averaged 19.0 crimes for every 1,000 residents per quarter in Q2 2026, while southwest Austin averaged 16.1, hence it is generally safer when all crimes are considered.

How do the 19 neighborhoods of southwest Austin compare? In Q2 2026 the police recorded 2,537 crimes across them, 16.1 for every 1,000 residents. That is 0.5% below a year earlier and 0.2% above Q1 2022, the first quarter we track.

Circle C South has the lowest rate of the everyday neighborhoods (3.0 per 1,000), followed by West Oak Hill (6.6) and Village at Western Oaks (7.1). East Congress has the highest (52.2).

Use the RACE CHARTS below to watch all 19 AUSTIN SOUTHWEST NEIGHBORHOODs race across 18 quarter periods from Q1 2022 to Q2 2026 - one crime category at a time or all together. The race chart can be used to compare average crime rates by category against Austin's average.

Neighborhood boundaries are defined by City of Austin Open Data, grouped into eight areas by CrimesLog from Austin Police Department sectors; simplified by CrimesLog.

A little history

Austin Southwest in Austin. Austin is a city of almost a million people on the Colorado River, chosen as the capital of the Republic of Texas in 1839 and built around state government, the university and the technology industry. Austin Southwest is the part of the city where Bouldin Creek, Zilker and South Lamar form the heart of the "Keep Austin Weird" Austin, a slogan popularized from around 2000 to back local independent businesses.

Notable neighborhoods in Austin Southwest include:

Barton Springs and Zilker. Barton Springs, a spring-fed swimming pool in Zilker Park, has drawn Austinites for generations. The park is named for Andrew Zilker, a businessman who gave land there to the city, and it has hosted the Austin City Limits Music Festival every autumn since 2002.

South Lamar. Bouldin Creek, Zilker and South Lamar are the heart of the "Keep Austin Weird" Austin: the slogan was popularized from around 2000 to back local independent businesses.

Oak Hill and Circle C. Further out, Oak Hill and the planned community of Circle C grew from the 1980s and 1990s, and Barton Creek Square mall opened in 1981 as the area's shopping hub.

Lowest rate (everyday)

Circle C South

3.0 crimes per 1,000 residents, Q2 2026

Highest rate

East Congress

52.2 per 1,000, Q2 2026

Whole area, Q2 2026

16.1 per 1,000

0.5% below a year earlier ·

0.2% above Q1 2022

Compared

19 neighborhoods

157,976 residents · 18 quarters

Austin Southwest neighborhood quarterly crime race

Press ▶︎ to watch Q1 2022 to Q2 2026. Tick one crime category or several; hover a bar for the neighborhood. Property crimes includes burglaries and thefts.

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Southeast Corner Walter Tips House Austin 2019, Bouldin Creek

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Hampton Branch Library Austin Texas 2026, Village at Western Oaks — **Village at Western Oaks** · Hampton Branch Library Austin Texas 2026
Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Covington Middle School Austin Texas 2026, Brodie Lane — **Brodie Lane** · Covington Middle School Austin Texas 2026
Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Austin Pizza Garden 3, Austin, Texas, East Oak Hill — **East Oak Hill** · Austin Pizza Garden 3, Austin, Texas
Photo: Nicolas Henderson from Coppell, Texas, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Austin Nature Center Entrance, Barton Creek Mall — **Barton Creek Mall** · Austin Nature Center Entrance
Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Dollar General - Retail Store, Austin, Texas, Garrison Park — **Garrison Park** · Dollar General - Retail Store, Austin, Texas
Photo: Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Afternoon View of Downtown Austin, Zilker — **Zilker** · Afternoon View of Downtown Austin
Photo: Tim Patterson from Austin, TX, United States, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

360 Barton Springs 5July08 (9), Barton Hills — **Barton Hills** · 360 Barton Springs 5July08 (9)
Photo: Downtown Austin, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Broken Spoke Austin Texas 2024, South Lamar — **South Lamar** · Broken Spoke Austin Texas 2024
Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

How neighborhoods moved each quarter

2022

Whole-area crime rate 16.0 to 18.0 per 1,000 (high: Q3 2022).

Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): moved up Dawson 15th→11th (Q2) moved down Barton Hills 12th→18th (Q4)

2023

Whole-area crime rate 15.8 to 17.6 per 1,000 (high: Q1 2023).

Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): moved up Barton Hills 18th→11th (Q1) Barton Creek Mall 13th→9th (Q2) moved down South Manchaca 9th→13th (Q2) Barton Creek Mall 9th→15th (Q3) Barton Creek Mall 15th→9th (Q4) Barton Hills 11th→15th (Q4)

2024

Whole-area crime rate 15.2 to 17.1 per 1,000 (high: Q3 2024).

Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): moved up Barton Hills 15th→6th (Q1) Dawson 16th→12th (Q1) moved down St. Edwards 11th→16th (Q1) Barton Hills 6th→12th (Q2) Dawson 12th→16th (Q2)

2025

Whole-area crime rate 15.6 to 18.0 per 1,000 (high: Q3 2025).

Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): moved up Barton Hills 17th→9th (Q1)

2026

Whole-area crime rate 15.5 to 16.1 per 1,000 (high: Q2 2026). 2 quarters so far.

Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): moved down Barton Hills 7th→11th (Q2)

Reported Safety Incidents

In Q2 2026: public order incidents were 33% (832), property incidents were 29% (726), vehicle crimes were 21% (534) and violent incidents were 18% (445).

Recorded crime here is grouped into violent crime, property crime (burglary and theft), vehicle crime and public order offences, so you can compare how safe each neighborhood is for the kind of crime that matters to you.

Read category comparisons with care. A category that jumps while the total hardly moves looks like a change in how offences are classified, not in what happened: Q1 2024: property down 25% while the total moved 7%. The whole-area rate is the steadier guide.

Places we left out, and places to read with care

No place is left out: every neighborhood in this race has residents to count.

Hays Wartha (1.8 per 1,000 from 3 crimes among 1,631 residents) and West Congress (46.4 per 1,000 from 135 crimes among 2,910 residents) are places with few residents (under 3,000): a rate on so few people says little about living there, so they are not named as the lowest or highest.

The 19 neighborhoods on the map

Austin Southwest is made of 19 neighborhoods compared here, each in its own colour on the map. They are the City of Austin’s neighborhood areas, grouped into eight areas by CrimesLog from Austin Police Department sectors: 157,976 residents between them.

Barton Creek Mall
Barton Hills
Bouldin Creek
Brodie Lane
Circle C South
Dawson
East Congress
East Oak Hill
Galindo
Garrison Park
Hays Wartha
South Lamar
South Manchaca
St. Edwards
Village at Western Oaks
West Congress
West Oak Hill
Westgate
Zilker

All 19 neighborhoods, Q2 2026

Crimes per 1,000 residents, Q2 2026, lowest first. The last two columns compare with Q1 2022.
#	Neighborhood	Residents	All	Violent	Property	Vehicle	Public order	Rate vs Q1 2022	Places gained
1	Hays Wartha †	1,631	1.8	0.6	0.0	0.0	1.2	0%	1
2	Circle C South	15,801	3.0	0.8	0.5	0.2	1.5	88%	1
3	West Oak Hill	19,746	6.6	1.1	1.6	1.6	2.3	11%	2
4	Village at Western Oaks	9,671	7.1	0.8	1.4	2.6	2.3	41%	1
5	Brodie Lane	11,114	10.2	1.4	4.3	1.9	2.6	47%	1
6	East Oak Hill	17,366	12.5	2.1	3.6	3.6	3.2	5%	–
7	Galindo	5,158	13.4	2.3	2.5	3.7	4.8	8%	–
8	Barton Creek Mall	7,736	15.3	1.4	6.0	6.0	1.9	29%	2
9	Garrison Park	11,469	16.2	3.6	4.1	2.0	6.5	10%	1
10	Zilker	9,732	18.0	4.2	4.5	3.5	5.8	10%	1
11	Barton Hills	8,886	18.1	4.0	5.0	4.8	4.3	19%	1
12	South Lamar	9,147	23.9	4.3	6.8	5.6	7.3	0%	1
13	South Manchaca	5,969	25.6	3.9	7.7	3.9	10.2	16%	2
14	St. Edwards	5,639	27.3	5.8	10.5	3.7	7.3	17%	3
15	Westgate	3,441	28.5	6.1	9.3	3.5	9.6	0%	1
16	Bouldin Creek	6,205	32.5	6.8	9.0	5.3	11.4	13%	2
17	Dawson	3,077	38.0	3.6	12.3	8.8	13.3	46%	2
18	West Congress †	2,910	46.4	4.8	10.0	6.5	25.1	80%	4
19	East Congress	3,278	52.2	7.9	14.0	11.9	18.3	4%	–

† Hays Wartha and West Congress are places with few residents. A rate on a very small number of residents or crimes is not comparable with the others.

Photographs

64 photographs of the 19 neighborhoods run along the reel; click one to see it full size. Each is credited here and under the large view.

All 64 photographs and their credits

Village at Western Oaks · Hampton Branch Library Austin Texas 2026. Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Brodie Lane · Covington Middle School Austin Texas 2026. Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
East Oak Hill · Austin Pizza Garden 3, Austin, Texas. Photo: Nicolas Henderson from Coppell, Texas, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Barton Creek Mall · Austin Nature Center Entrance. Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Garrison Park · Dollar General - Retail Store, Austin, Texas. Photo: Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Zilker · Afternoon View of Downtown Austin. Photo: Tim Patterson from Austin, TX, United States, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Barton Hills · 360 Barton Springs 5July08 (9). Photo: Downtown Austin, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
South Lamar · Broken Spoke Austin Texas 2024. Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
South Manchaca · Old Southwood Theater Austin Texas 2026. Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
St. Edwards · Austin ISD Headquarters Austin Texas 2023. Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Westgate · Central Market Austin Westgate 2026. Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Bouldin Creek · Austin Hotel No Vacancy. Photo: Nan Palmero, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
West Congress · South Congress Transit Center Austin Texas 2026. Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
East Congress · ST-ELMO-TEL. Photo: Matthew Rutledge, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Village at Western Oaks · Playground Nichols Park Austin Texas 2026. Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
East Oak Hill · Austin Pizza Garden 4, Austin, Texas Historical Marker. Photo: Nicolas Henderson from Coppell, Texas, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Barton Creek Mall · Ashford McGill House Austin Texas. Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Garrison Park · Khabele School Manchaca Road Austin Texas. Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Zilker · Alamo Draft House South Lamar at Night. Photo: Nan Palmero, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Barton Hills · Airman's Cave. Photo: goffster, CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
South Lamar · Broken Spoke Texas Historical Marker 2025. Photo: SueRostvold, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
South Manchaca · SCI Austin Texas 2026. Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
St. Edwards · Blunn Creek Trail. Photo: Fastmole, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Westgate · The Vegan Yacht - Austin, Texas. Photo: Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Bouldin Creek · Southeast Corner Walter Tips House Austin 2019. Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Village at Western Oaks · Alamo Drafthouse Slaughter Austin Texas 2026. Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
East Oak Hill · Old Rock Store Front Half Austin 2019. Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Barton Creek Mall · AT&T Store Barton Creek Mall Austin Texas. Photo: Kurt Kaiser, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Zilker · Neighborhood ATX-29. Photo: Hensbread, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Barton Hills · Austin, TX Moonlight Tower with the Moon. Photo: KeelyHill, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
South Lamar · Broken Spoke Entrance Door Austin 2025. Photo: SueRostvold, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
St. Edwards · Sweet Leaf Corp Hq 2012. Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Westgate · Joslin Neighborhood Park Austin Texas 2026. Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Bouldin Creek · Neighborhood ATX-14. Photo: Hensbread, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
East Oak Hill · Old Rock Store Back Half Austin 2019. Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Barton Creek Mall · Barton Creek Square Mall Austin Texas 2020. Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Zilker · Neighborhood ATX-31. Photo: Hensbread, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Barton Hills · Austin, Texas Aerial View in December 2024. Photo: Alexis Doine, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
South Lamar · Seymour Fogel House 2011. Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
St. Edwards · Lucian Hamilton Field Austin Texas 2020. Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Westgate · Regal Westgate Cinemas Austin Texas 2026. Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Bouldin Creek · Neighborhood ATX-19. Photo: Hensbread, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
East Oak Hill · Old Rock Store Interior Austin 2019. Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Barton Creek Mall · Coach Store Barton Creek Mall Austin Texas. Photo: Kurt Kaiser, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Zilker · Neighborhood ATX-32. Photo: Hensbread, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Barton Hills · ACL Radiohead 2016. Photo: ღ ℂℏ℟ḯʂ ღ from Texas, USA, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
South Lamar · Taco Express Austin. Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
St. Edwards · Neighborhood ATX-18. Photo: Hensbread, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Bouldin Creek · Green Pastures 2007. Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
East Oak Hill · Austin Pizza Garden, Austin, Texas. Photo: Nicolas Henderson from Coppell, Texas, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Barton Creek Mall · Foot Locker Store Barton Creek Mall Austin Texas. Photo: Kurt Kaiser, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Zilker · Foggy Downtown Austin. Photo: Tim Patterson from Austin, TX, United States, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
South Lamar · Neighborhood ATX-30. Photo: Hensbread, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
St. Edwards · Neighborhood ATX-17. Photo: Hensbread, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
East Oak Hill · Austin Pizza Garden, Austin, Texas. Photo: Nicolas Henderson from Coppell, Texas, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Zilker · Foggy Night in Austin. Photo: Tim Patterson from Austin, TX, United States, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
South Lamar · The Broken Spoke Austin Exterior 2025. Photo: SueRostvold, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
St. Edwards · Neighborhood ATX-16. Photo: Hensbread, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
East Oak Hill · St Andrews Episcopal Upper School Entrance. Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Zilker · I V Davis Homestead Austin Texas 2024. Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
South Lamar · Westgate Transit Center Austin 2021. Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
St. Edwards · Blunn Creek Trail Head. Photo: Fastmole, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
East Oak Hill · US Route 290 and William Cannon Intersection Oak Hill Austin. Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
East Oak Hill · The Y in Oak Hill Austin Texas 2018. Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Sources and notes

CrimesLog sources crime incident data published by the Austin Police Department (APD) through the City of Austin ArcGIS Open Data service (maps.austintexas.gov), containing public sector information made available by the City of Austin.

Population: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (public domain).

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Neighborhood boundaries are defined by City of Austin Open Data, grouped into eight areas by CrimesLog from Austin Police Department sectors and simplified by CrimesLog. The photographs are credited under each picture.

Rates are recorded crimes per 1,000 residents, quarter by quarter; where a neighborhood has fewer than 100 residents the rate would be worked out on 100 (those places are left out of the race). A count of recorded crime is not a verdict on any neighborhood.

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