{"id":168726,"date":"2026-02-17T22:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/168726\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T22:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:32:08","slug":"el-paso-didnt-make-texass-safest-cities-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/168726\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso Didn&#8217;t Make Texas&#8217;s Safest Cities List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El Paso typically ranks really high &#8230; usually #1 or #2 &#8230; on various &#8220;safest cities&#8221; lists but we didn&#8217;t even crack the top 10 on this one.<\/p>\n<p>Safewise.com just released their list of the top 10 safest cities in Texas and El Paso did not make the cut. You would think bigger cities would, by default, be less safe, right?<\/p>\n<p>Not in Texas. We like to be different I guess; this list was dominated by cities that make up the Houston and DFW areas.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.safewise.com\/state-of-safety\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">safewise.com<\/a>, the safest cities in Texas are all pretty close together and nowhere near the southwest. The metropolitan areas of Dallas and Houston have got most of &#8217;em &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Top 10 Safest Cities In TexasTrophy Club (Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington)Parker (Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington)Memorial Villages (Houston\u2013The Woodlands\u2013Sugar Land)Melissa (Dallas-Fort Worth)Fair Oaks Ranch (San Antonio-New Braunfels)Whitehouse (Tyler)Murphy (Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington)Fulshear (Houston\u2013The Woodlands\u2013Sugar Land)Colleyville (Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington)Lumberton (Beaumont-Port Arthur)Texas Worries About Safety<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.safewise.com\/state-of-safety\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Safewise.com<\/a> also lists Texas as being one of the states where the overall population is most worried about crime, putting us in 8th place with 55% of Texans being concerned.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/klaq.com\/el-paso-deadly-border\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">El Paso Is Safe &#8211; The Border Itself Is Not<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s only 1 percentage point ahead of our neighbors in New Mexico who took 9th place with 54% of their peeps worried about crime. (They&#8217;re in a 3 way tie between NM, New Jersey and Tennessee.)<\/p>\n<p>Who Feels Safest?<\/p>\n<p>As far as the cities where residents &#8220;feel&#8221; the safest, not one Texas city made that top 10 but our neighbors in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.safewise.com\/state-of-safety\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New Mexico took the #1 spot<\/a> as far as the top 10 states where folks feel the least safe. (<a href=\"https:\/\/klaq.com\/most-dangerous-new-mexico-cities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2 of NM&#8217;s sketchier cities<\/a> are right by El Paso.)<\/p>\n<p>9 Most Common Cybercrimes in TexasHave you ever been a victim of any of these common cybercrimes in Texas, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipdraylaw.com\/top-cybercrimes-in-texas\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Philip D. Ray Law<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: Nick<\/p>\n<p>11 Shocking Crimes in Rock + Metal History<\/p>\n<p>Rock and metal musicians have committed some pretty serious and shocking crimes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/loudwire.com\/author\/loudwirestaff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Loudwire Staff<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"El Paso typically ranks really high &#8230; usually #1 or #2 &#8230; on various &#8220;safest cities&#8221; lists but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139,143,223,1631,1632],"class_list":["post-168726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-local-el-paso","tag-news","tag-opinion","tag-texas-regional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}