Exploring Dallas' crime hot spots

This map of the Dallas Police Department’s 27 hot spots makes clear that crime doesn’t recognize the city’s north-south divide. These areas are not necessarily the most violent areas of the city, but rather the zones where a person is most likely to be victimized by crime. Each hot spot has a ranking among crime zones in the city and are named after nicknames or major street intersections at the heart of each hot spot. That means the No. 1 spot, Ross/Bennett, is the city’s most crime-prone area. The demographic data in the callouts pertains not to the criminals but to the residents, who are at the highest risk of being victimized by crime. These zones exclude the Park Cities and Cockrell Hill — not because they don’t have crime but because they aren’t under the Dallas Police Department’s jurisdiction.

Select a hot spot. Select a hot spot... View all 1. Ross and Bennett 2. Intersetion of Forest and Audelia 3. Int. of Webb Chapel and Timberline 4. Five Points 5. St. Augustine and Bruton 6. John West and Buckner 7. Lake June and Buckner 8. Camp Wisdom and Chaucer 9. Wycliff and Maple 10. Greenville and LBJ 11. Spring Valley and Preston 12. The Jefferson Corridor 13. Royal and Skillman 14. Loop 12 and Jim Miller 15. Camp Wisdom and Westmoreland 16. Julius Schepps and Central 17. Samuell and Buckner 18. Forest and Dennis 19. Hatcher and Scyene 20. Hampton and Ledbetter 21. Walnut Hill and Jupiter 22. Davis and Westmoreland 23. Maham and Spring Valley 24. Ferguson and Woodmeadow 25. N.W. Highway and Walton Walker 26. Overton and Illinois 27. Central and CF Hawn

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Payday loan, pawn, fast-cash shops
Dallas Housing Authority projects
Apartments built 1985 or before

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Where Dallas police are now: These are up-to-the-minute, top-priority, active calls where Dallas police officers are at the scene. This excludes calls protected by privacy laws.

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Methodology: Hot spot outlines were generated by the Dallas Police Department’s Strategic Deployment Bureau using multiple statistical factors including crime data and classified intelligence on gang activities. All statistics are approximations and are based on the 2010 U.S. census, Dallas Central Appraisal District registration data and the latest information available in the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. The substandard apartment rating is based on a grading system used by the Dallas Department of Code Compliance. Other data sources include the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the North Central Texas Council of Governments, ESRI and Dallas Morning News research.