Hobbs, NM carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 125% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Hobbs, NM shows violent crime at 790.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,751.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 125% 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
790.3/100K violent
3751.4/100K property
+125% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Hobbs, NM
Comparable rate records
Hobbs's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Mexico cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Hobbs's 790.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Portales (781.5), Truth or Consequences (818.7), Lordsburg (831.8), Santa Fe (842.1). 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
Hobbs reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable New Mexico cities
At 790.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Hobbs ranks 10 of 43 — above 33 of the 42 other New Mexico cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +65.5% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 689.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 790.3 in 2024 (+14.7%). The highest observed value was 950.9 in 2022 and the lowest 689.3 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 17.4% of the 1,770 Part I offenses reported in Hobbs for 2024, against a median of 21.6% across comparable New Mexico cities — a gap of 4.2 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.
Property counts dominate Hobbs'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Hobbs's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 26.4 Census sq mi, Hobbs logged 55.3 property and 11.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Hobbs leans on larceny-theft at 55% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,702.
Violent offenses are 17% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (26.4 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-25.4%
5031.3 → 3751.4/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-10.8%
886.2 → 790.3/100K
Property offenses lead Hobbs's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
1,462
3751.4
1711
Larceny-Theft
979
2512.1
-
Burglary
339
869.9
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
144
369.5
-
Arson
2
5.1
-
Violent Crime
308
790.3
352
Aggravated Assault
254
651.7
-
Rape
26
66.7
-
Robbery
20
51.3
-
Murder
8
20.5
-
Hobbs Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Hobbs 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
Hobbs Police Department
Reporting agency for Hobbs NIBRS-participating
Hobbs Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Hobbs's 1,770 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
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New Mexico cities closest to Hobbs in population. Their populations run from 17,996 to 46,677, against 38,972 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Hobbs reported 308 violent crimes and 1,462 property crimes, for a total of 1,770 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Hobbs?
From 2023 to 2024, Hobbs's violent crime rate decreased by 10.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 25.4%.
What is the most common crime in Hobbs?
The most common crime type in Hobbs is larceny-theft, accounting for 55.3% of all reported crimes (979 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Hobbs figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.