Grants, NM has a C safety grade (44/100) with a violent crime rate of 424 per 100,000, 21% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Grants is a small municipal reporter (8,953 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with NM and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Grants, NM carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 21% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Grants, NM shows violent crime at 424.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,619.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 21% 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 Grants's 424.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Edgewood (392.6), Aztec (458.3), Questa (389.5), Raton (469.7). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 370.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 424.4 in 2024 (+14.6%). The highest observed value was 424.4 in 2024 and the lowest 210.2 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 424.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Grants ranks 26 of 43 — above 17 of the 42 other New Mexico cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -11.9% against the cohort median of 481.6. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 55.9% of reported property offenses in Grants, against a cohort median of 65.6%. The remainder is burglary (35) and motor vehicle theft (29). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Grants'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 14.9 Census sq mi, Grants logged 9.8 property and 2.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Grants leans on larceny-theft at 44% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,799.
Violent offenses are 21% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Grants offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (14.9 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 | 145 | 1619.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 81 | 904.7 |
| Burglary | 35 | 390.9 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 29 | 323.9 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 38 | 424.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 26 | 290.4 |
| Rape | 6 | 67 |
| Robbery | 6 | 67 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 8,911 | 370.3 | 852.9 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 8,796 | 386.5 | 227.4 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 9,199 | 282.6 | 532.7 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 9,038 | 210.2 | 520 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 8,953 | 424.4 | 1619.6 |
Grants Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Grants's 183 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 Grants in population. Their populations run from 6,113 to 11,772, against 8,953 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Grants sits at 424.4/100K violent (grade C); the New Mexico cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Grants reported 38 violent crimes and 145 property crimes, for a total of 183 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Grants's violent crime rate increased by 101.9%, and the property crime rate increased by 211.5%.
The most common crime type in Grants is larceny-theft, accounting for 44.3% of all reported crimes (81 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Grants 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 Grants's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Grants, NM rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Grants is scored as a small-city UCR reporter (8,953 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.