What Black Texans should know before choosing a San Antonio ZIP CODE...

What Black Texans should know before choosing a San Antonio ZIP CODE...
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By Christopher C. Herring | Black Texas News | July 29, 2026

For Black Texans considering a move to San Antonio, neighborhood research should include more than home prices, schools and commute times. Policing patterns can also differ substantially from one ZIP code to another. This tool allows readers to compare recorded calls, arrest-source rows and offense-source rows from 2023 through 2025, while also viewing partial 2026 activity as a clearly labeled glideslope.

The citywide data shows an important pattern: arrest-source rows increased between 2023 and 2025 even as recorded offense rows declined. Some ZIP codes experienced sustained increases, while others remained stable or recorded decreases. That does not automatically mean a neighborhood is more dangerous—or that police performance improved. Arrest-source rows are not the same as unique arrests, unique people or convictions, and the arrests-per-100-offenses measure is not a clearance rate.

This dashboard should be used as a starting point for better questions. Before relocating, families can examine whether policing activity is rising, falling or diverging from reported offenses in the ZIPs they are considering. Those findings should then be weighed alongside housing costs, schools, transportation, employment access, health care and community resources. The goal is not to label neighborhoods, but to give Black Texans greater visibility into the public systems that may shape daily life.

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Important context: The ZIP-level data does not identify the race or ethnicity of arrested people, whether they live in the ZIP, or the circumstances and final disposition of individual cases. It measures reported activity associated with each ZIP—not the personal likelihood that a particular resident will be arrested or become a crime victim.

Enter your current ZIP—or a ZIP where you are considering buying or renting—to compare complete-year trends and view the available 2026 activity glideslope.

National Data System · SAPD ZIP Intelligence

Public-safety outcomes and year-to-year direction by ZIP

Query complete-year changes in recorded calls, represented arrest-source rows, represented offense-source rows, and the aggregate arrests-per-100-offenses measure—plus a separately labeled 2026 partial-year glideslope.

Selected-year snapshot

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Enter a ZIP code and select a year.

2025 methodology disclosure: The 2025 ZIP analysis includes 59,155 arrest-source rows and 135,285 offense-source rows assigned to 76 ZIP areas. The original source files contain 59,505 arrest rows and 136,708 offense rows for 2025. Approximately 0.59% of arrest rows and 1.04% of offense rows were not represented in the ZIP-level outcome table. Source rows are not equivalent to unique reports: the arrest data contains 37,247 unique Report IDs, while the offense data contains 125,125 unique Report IDs. The arrests-per-100-offenses measure is an aggregate row-count ratio and must not be interpreted as a clearance rate.
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