Hatch, NM has a D safety grade (30/100) with a violent crime rate of 571 per 100,000, 62% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Hatch's UCR row covers a small municipal population (1,575). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to NM and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Hatch, NM carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 62% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Hatch, NM shows violent crime at 571.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,523.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 62% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Hatch reported 9 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 1,575. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1393.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 571.4 in 2024 (-59.0%). The highest observed value was 1393.9 in 2020 and the lowest 0.0 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Hatch's 571.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Los Lunas (583.5), Bayard (537.6), Carlsbad (524.9), Clayton (508.0). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 571.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Hatch ranks 16 of 43 — above 27 of the 42 other New Mexico cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +19.7% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 27.3% of the 33 Part I offenses reported in Hatch for 2024, against a median of 21.5% across comparable New Mexico cities — a gap of 5.8 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 Hatch, against a cohort median of 65.3%. The remainder is burglary (2) and motor vehicle theft (4). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Hatch'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.
Based on 9 reported violent incidents in a population of 1,575. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Across 3 Census sq mi, Hatch logged 8 property and 3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Hatch leans on larceny-theft at 55% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,655.
Violent offenses are 27% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Hatch offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (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 | 24 | 1523.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 18 | 1142.9 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 4 | 254 |
| Burglary | 2 | 127 |
| Arson | 1 | 63.5 |
| Violent Crime | 9 | 571.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 7 | 444.4 |
| Rape | 2 | 127 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 1,650 | 1393.9 | 848.5 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 1,680 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 1,554 | 257.4 | 514.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 1,563 | 383.9 | 831.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 1,575 | 571.4 | 1523.8 |
Hatch Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Hatch's 33 reported offenses (4-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 Hatch in population. Their populations run from 1,221 to 2,456, against 1,575 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Hatch sits at 571.4/100K violent (grade D); the New Mexico cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Hatch reported 9 violent crimes and 24 property crimes, for a total of 33 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Hatch's violent crime rate increased by 48.8%, and the property crime rate increased by 83.2%.
The most common crime type in Hatch is larceny-theft, accounting for 54.5% of all reported crimes (18 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Hatch's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Hatch's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Hatch, 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. Hatch is scored as a small municipal UCR reporter (1,575 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.