Best safe, quieter areas to live in Dallas

Posted by Serious-Animator8966@reddit | askdfw | View on Reddit | 12 comments

I graduated from SMU last May and am currently still looking for a full time job, so I’m trying to be more intentional about my next apartment. My current lease in Uptown ends in July, but my rent is going up, I don’t love my apartment, and wouldn’t be able to afford. My parents are helping support me, but they’re starting to scale that back, so I’m trying to stay around $2,000, including amenity and extra frees (maybe up to $2,300 max) for a 1-bedroom or studio.

priorities:

-Safety (I’m a girl living alone so this top priority)

-Lots of natural light

-Balcony

-750-800+ sqft

Things I like about my current apartment:

-Gated garage

-24/7 concierge (I know this might be out of budget now)

-Limited access points (only front entrance + garage)

-Overall just feels very secure

-high rise (also probably out of budget now)

-Pool & gym

I’m not big on nightlife and I’m currently nannying in Park Cities, so I’d like to stay relatively close. What areas should I be looking at besides Uptown/Knox?

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Upstairs_Balance_464@reddit

Good lord you’d think Dallas was Mogadishu

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Electrical_Long_4222@reddit

This is something I've always found funny about Dallas, especially after living in other cities. Despite being arguably one of the safest big cities in the country, it's filled with people who for some reason think it's actually very unsafe.

Compared to Chicago, Boston, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami -- shit, even compared to Houston -- Dallas is basically a utopia.

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Bob_The_Skull@reddit

Lol what?

I agree it is overblown how "unsafe" Dallas, but calling it a "utopia" compared to those cities...

Haha, dude, Chicago, LA, NYC, and San Fran are all easily better than Dallas, what are you talking about??

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Electrical_Long_4222@reddit

Every survey of crime over the last decade has Dallas ranked as more safe for both violent and nonviolent crime than Chicago, NYC, and San Francisco.

The only city of that specific group that can claim to be safer is Los Angeles due to a lower violent crime rate, however when you expand the survey to LA County it drops below Dallas.

Among cities with populations over 1 million, Dallas consistently ranks in the top 5.

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Bob_The_Skull@reddit

And by what statistics are you ranking that?

Are we just going off of "number of violent crimes"? Because if so, then yeah of course, 9 times out of 10, cities with more people will have more crime.

The truest numbers here are crimes per capita, and looking at the 2024 US census numbers, the crime rate per 100,000 people is significantly higher in Dallas compared to LA, NYC, Boston, or Miami.