5 Dallas suburbs were named as the safest cities to live in Texas. (Trey Ratcliff/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
5 Dallas-area cities topped a list of safest places to live in Texas. Here’s what you need to know.
Living in the Dallas suburbs comes with a variety of perks. You’re close to restaurants, coffee shops, stores, music venues, museums, and sport stadiums, and you also get to experience a peaceful, slower pace of life away from the city. Thanks to a new report from SafeWise, we can officially add another benefit to that list: safety. Five Dallas suburbs earned the “safest cities” nod on SafeWise’s 2026 survey, including Murphy, Trophy Club, Melissa, Colleyville, and Parker.
The No. 1 honor goes to Trophy Club, followed by Parker at No. 2, Melissa at No. 4, Murphy at No. 7, and Colleyville at No. 9. To determine its ranking, SafeWise analyzed violent crime and property data from the FBI for over 300 Texas cities. From there, it looked at the population numbers for each region and made adjustments where needed to compensate for suburban towns and rural areas compared to urban cities. For a more complete breakdown of this data, click here.
SafeWise noted in its annual report that “a number of factors, including local agency reporting practices, community resources, prevention efforts, and lived experience all influence how safe a place is (or is perceived to be),” meaning that there’s always room for human error when calculating these types of lists. Not everyone is going to have the same experience of safety in any given area, but the data compiled by the company at least provides a general picture of which suburbs seem to be thriving and which are falling behind in terms of safety.
It’s important to note that across Texas, property crime rates are slightly higher than the national average, coming in at about 23 incidents per 1,000 people. The state’s violent crime rate is on par with the national average, with about 4.44 incidents reported per 1,000 people. This serves as a good example of what SafeWise is saying: Yes, these five Dallas suburbs are theoretically safer than others, but that doesn’t mean they’re totally crime-free either.
Texas still has room for improvement
Oftentimes, North Texas’s cities and suburbs—like McKinney, Arlington, Frisco, and Fort Worth—rank on the higher end of safety surveys, which is definitely a positive. When accounting for how residents in the Lone Star State feel about their overall welfare, SafeWise learned that around 49% of them reported feeling safe. That’s ever so slightly below the national average of 52%. More concerningly, though, is the fact that 55% of Texans say they’re worried about their safety most days.
However, it seems like the SafeWise survey participants, while concerned about their general well-being, didn’t report many personal experiences with crime. All of this is a good example of how hard it can be to make tangible decisions in relation to security, because so many factors need to be considered for each individual. Generally speaking, those previously mentioned suburbs are a safe place to land for Texans, and we’re counting that as a win in our books.
This article first appeared on Good Info News Wire and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
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