Law enforcement is doing their best to clean up the city’s worst neighborhoods, but they can’t be everywhere. There are currently 3,500 police officers that patrol Houston, but the city houses 2.3 million residents. Folks, the kind of neighborhoods we’re talking about have carjackings happening in broad daylight, daily robberies, and a bunch of nothing good happens after dark crimes. To get this score, we looked at the latest census data on income levels, unemployment rates, crime, and home prices for 26 Houston neighborhoods with over 11,000 residents.Īs you can imagine, Houston’s worst neighborhoods did not disappoint. In order to determine Houston’s worst neighborhoods, we had to give each neighborhood an actual concrete score: we’ll call this a neighborhood’s overall ‘Snackability’. Houston’s homicide rate is on the rise, so you should take a look at RoadSnacks’ list of the worst neighborhoods in Houston for 2023 so that you don’t become a statistic.īut first, this is how we created our list. Source: Wikipedia User Armbrust | CC BY 2.0