Bernalillo, NM has a C safety grade (41/100) with a violent crime rate of 481 per 100,000, 37% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Bernalillo is a small municipal reporter (9,144 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with NM and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Bernalillo, NM carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 37% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Bernalillo, NM shows violent crime at 481.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,312.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 37% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Bernalillo's 481.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Eunice (482.1), Santa Rosa (473.9), Raton (469.7), Artesia (493.7). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 26.8% of the 164 Part I offenses reported in Bernalillo for 2024, against a median of 21.5% across comparable New Mexico cities — a gap of 5.3 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 75.0% of reported property offenses in Bernalillo, against a cohort median of 65.3%. The remainder is burglary (23) and motor vehicle theft (7). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
Across 3 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 483.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 481.2 in 2024 (-0.5%). The highest observed value was 639.5 in 2023 and the lowest 481.2 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 481.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Bernalillo ranks 22 of 43 — above 21 of the 42 other New Mexico cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +0.7% against the cohort median of 478.0. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property counts dominate Bernalillo'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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 5.2 Census sq mi, Bernalillo logged 23 property and 8.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Bernalillo leans on larceny-theft at 55% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,854.
Violent offenses are 27% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Bernalillo offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (5.2 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 | 120 | 1312.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 90 | 984.3 |
| Burglary | 23 | 251.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 7 | 76.6 |
| Arson | 1 | 10.9 |
| Violent Crime | 44 | 481.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 41 | 448.4 |
| Robbery | 2 | 21.9 |
| Rape | 1 | 10.9 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2021, 2022 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · fell across 3 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 10,748 | 483.8 | 1572.4 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 11,158 | - | - |
| 2022 | Insufficient reporting | 9,977 | - | - |
| 2023 | Comparable | 10,320 | 639.5 | 1579.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 9,144 | 481.2 | 1312.3 |
Bernalillo Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Bernalillo's 164 reported offenses (3-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
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 Bernalillo in population. Their populations run from 6,406 to 12,152, against 9,144 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Bernalillo sits at 481.2/100K violent (grade C); the New Mexico cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Bernalillo reported 44 violent crimes and 120 property crimes, for a total of 164 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Bernalillo's violent crime rate decreased by 24.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 16.9%.
The most common crime type in Bernalillo is larceny-theft, accounting for 54.9% of all reported crimes (90 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Bernalillo is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Bernalillo's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Bernalillo, NM rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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