[Bryn-gwlad] Moving to Austin

[Lucia Digioia]

http://216.140.183.80/SOMAP/somapSearch.cfm

Enter "100 congress ave, Austin 78701" and zoom out several times. You'll 
see support for my earlier statement that west Austin is the place to 
be--vis-a-vis avoiding sex offenders, anyhow!

I would agree with Dan'l that the Far West area feels fairly safe, with the 
exception of some property crime around the larger apartment complexes. Just 
a few streets north or south of that area is safer still.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim McDaniel" <tmcd at panix.com>
To: "Barony of Bryn Gwlad" <bryn-gwlad at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Bryn-gwlad] Moving to Austin


> On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Blue Bains <bluebains at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Far west is on the College bus route, and therefore is moderatly
>> priced with a fairly high crime rate. and not necessarily the best
>> area for children .
>
> Has someone already mentioned a way to find out crime statistics for a
> neighborhood?
>
> <http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/police/censustract/censustract.cfm> looks
> decent.  It has a link to a map to find census tracts (though you have
> to know the major roads that are boundaries), and then has charts of
> crimes up thru 2006.
>
> I looked at <http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/police/neighbor_crime.htm>,
> but the neighborhood names I found to be non-intuitive and not
> necessarily complete.  I can't find my own neighborhood, though I can
> find my apartment complex.  Also, the statistics are for 1999-2003.
>
> (The Far West area feels quite safe to me, though I'm a privileged
> large white male.  The crime stats for my complex in 2002 were mostly
> "BURGLARY OF VEH".)
>
> Daniel de Lincolia
> -- 
> Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com
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