Bloomfield, NM carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 102% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Bloomfield, NM shows violent crime at 709.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,459.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 102% 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.
F safety grade
709.4/100K violent
1459.8/100K property
+102% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Bloomfield, NM
Comparable rate records
Bloomfield's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Mexico cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Bloomfield's 709.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Las Cruces (720.0), Las Vegas (655.4), Portales (781.5), Hobbs (790.3). 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 make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 32.7% of the 159 Part I offenses reported in Bloomfield for 2024, against a median of 21.5% across comparable New Mexico cities — a gap of 11.2 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1021.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 709.4 in 2024 (-30.6%). The highest observed value was 1021.9 in 2020 and the lowest 518.1 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Bloomfield sits mid-pack among comparable New Mexico cities
At 709.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Bloomfield ranks 13 of 43 — above 30 of the 42 other New Mexico cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +48.5% 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.
Property counts dominate Bloomfield'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.
Bloomfield's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 18.5 Census sq mi, Bloomfield logged 5.8 property and 2.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Bloomfield leans on larceny-theft at 47% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,207.
Violent offenses are 33% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (18.5 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+12.6%
630 → 709.4/100K
Property Crime Rate
-4.8%
1533.8 → 1459.8/100K
Property offenses lead Bloomfield's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs NM
Property Crime
107
1459.8
2705.6
Larceny-Theft
74
1009.5
-
Burglary
17
231.9
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
16
218.3
-
Arson
5
68.2
-
Violent Crime
52
709.4
696.9
Aggravated Assault
45
613.9
-
Rape
6
81.9
-
Robbery
1
13.6
-
Murder
0
0
-
Bloomfield Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Bloomfield property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Bloomfield Police Department
Reporting agency for Bloomfield NIBRS-participating
Bloomfield Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Bloomfield's 159 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.
Similar-Size Cities in New Mexico
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In 2024, Bloomfield reported 52 violent crimes and 107 property crimes, for a total of 159 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Bloomfield?
From 2023 to 2024, Bloomfield's violent crime rate increased by 12.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 4.8%.
What is the most common crime in Bloomfield?
The most common crime type in Bloomfield is larceny-theft, accounting for 46.5% of all reported crimes (74 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Bloomfield 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Bloomfield, NM rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.