Albuquerque, NM has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 1182 per 100,000, 236% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · very large city
At 558,745 residents, Albuquerque is a very large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against NM and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Albuquerque, NM carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 236% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Albuquerque, NM shows violent crime at 1,181.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 4,628.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 236% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Share of the state cohort
The 32,466 Part I offenses reported here are 55.4% of the 58,567 reported across all 43 comparable New Mexico cities in 2024. A city this large moves the statewide municipal total on its own, so state-level changes should be read against its population of 558,745 rather than as a uniform shift.
Position in the state cohort
At 1181.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Albuquerque ranks 2 of 43 — above 41 of the 42 other New Mexico cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +147.5% against the cohort median of 477.6. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Albuquerque's 1181.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Belen (1158.8), Farmington (951.2), Taos (936.6), Gallup (1503.6). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1347.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1181.8 in 2024 (-12.3%). The highest observed value was 1434.4 in 2021 and the lowest 1181.8 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Albuquerque's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
On a very large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Across 187.3 Census sq mi, Albuquerque logged 138.1 property and 35.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Albuquerque leans on larceny-theft at 49% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,142.
Violent offenses are 20% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Albuquerque offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (187.3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 25,863 | 4628.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 15,864 | 2839.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 5,683 | 1017.1 |
| Burglary | 4,316 | 772.4 |
| Arson | 52 | 9.3 |
| Violent Crime | 6,603 | 1181.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 5,261 | 941.6 |
| Robbery | 890 | 159.3 |
| Rape | 349 | 62.5 |
| Murder | 103 | 18.4 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 562,065 | 1347.4 | 5044.6 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 564,147 | 1434.4 | 4456.1 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 560,557 | 1386.7 | 4833.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 559,094 | 1323.9 | 4758.6 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 558,745 | 1181.8 | 4628.8 |
Albuquerque Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Albuquerque's 32,466 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New Mexico cities closest to Albuquerque in population. Their populations run from 31,243 to 115,977, against 558,745 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Albuquerque sits at 1,181.8/100K violent (grade F); the New Mexico cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Albuquerque at 1,181.8/100K violent and 4,628.8/100K property - matched below outside New Mexico (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
1,181.8/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
4,628.8/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-10.7% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Albuquerque reported 6,603 violent crimes and 25,863 property crimes, for a total of 32,466 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Albuquerque's violent crime rate decreased by 10.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 2.7%.
The most common crime type in Albuquerque is larceny-theft, accounting for 48.9% of all reported crimes (15,864 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Albuquerque's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (very large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Large-city rate methodology for how Albuquerque's very large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Albuquerque, NM rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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