Not crime dagerous. Everywhere around/outside Corpus is better than Corpus, even though Corpus' crime is fairly low compared to other large cities. Dangerous, risky dangerous. There is only one way on and off the island. Every few years a boat runs into a bridge piling. About as ofter a large truck has an accident or something and that 7-10 min. drive suddenly becomes 1+ hr. The island is barely above sea level (one of the reasons there aren't a lot of services out there because building is restricted) and you would be surprised how easily the place floods or how little bad weather it takes to damage those cookie cutter houses on the island. The bridges (Padre Island and Portland) were under construction/repair for years and it took our friends who lived on Padre longer to get to the base than it took us from Sinton. Personally, I rather speed down the freeway and take 45 min. to get to work rather than crawl along in bumper to bumper traffic. You should have seen them trying to evacuate Padre Island before Rita- what a mess! Last year (or the year before) when the tractor trailer ran into the bridge support closing the bridge to traffic everyone, and I mean everyone, whether you lived on the island or in Corpus, had to drive the very long way around, which took them thru Sinton. Not me, I just hopped on the freeway; it didn't slow me down any! You know, in Texas, the "speed limit" lets you know that you need to drive at least 20 mph faster just to keep-up with traffic.