Las Vegas, NM carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 86% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Las Vegas, NM shows violent crime at 655.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,466.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 86% 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
655.4/100K violent
1466.9/100K property
+86% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Las Vegas, NM
Comparable rate records
Las Vegas's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Mexico cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Las Vegas's 655.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Bloomfield (709.4), Las Cruces (720.0), Los Lunas (583.5), Hatch (571.4). 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 437.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 655.4 in 2024 (+49.8%). The highest observed value was 1070.1 in 2023 and the lowest 437.5 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Las Vegas sits mid-pack among comparable New Mexico cities
At 655.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Las Vegas ranks 14 of 43 — above 29 of the 42 other New Mexico cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +37.2% 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 make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 30.9% of the 272 Part I offenses reported in Las Vegas for 2024, against a median of 21.5% across comparable New Mexico cities — a gap of 9.4 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 dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 75.5% of reported property offenses in Las Vegas, against a cohort median of 65.3%. The remainder is burglary (32) and motor vehicle theft (14). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Las Vegas'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.
Las Vegas's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 8.6 Census sq mi, Las Vegas logged 21.8 property and 9.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Las Vegas leans on larceny-theft at 52% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,656.
Violent offenses are 31% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (8.6 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Both rates shifted (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-38.8%
1070.1 → 655.4/100K
Property Crime Rate
-34.7%
2247.9 → 1466.9/100K
Property offenses lead Las Vegas's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs NM
Property Crime
188
1466.9
2705.6
Larceny-Theft
142
1108
-
Burglary
32
249.7
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
14
109.2
-
Arson
2
15.6
-
Violent Crime
84
655.4
696.9
Aggravated Assault
75
585.2
-
Robbery
5
39
-
Rape
3
23.4
-
Murder
1
7.8
-
Las Vegas Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Las Vegas property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Las Vegas Police Department
Reporting agency for Las Vegas NIBRS-participating
Las Vegas Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Las Vegas's 272 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 Las Vegas in population. Their populations run from 7,508 to 17,996, against 12,816 here. Or use our
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Las Vegas at 655.4/100K violent and 1,466.9/100K property - matched below outside New Mexico (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Las Vegas reported 84 violent crimes and 188 property crimes, for a total of 272 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Las Vegas?
From 2023 to 2024, Las Vegas's violent crime rate decreased by 38.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 34.7%.
What is the most common crime in Las Vegas?
The most common crime type in Las Vegas is larceny-theft, accounting for 52.2% of all reported crimes (142 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Las Vegas 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Las Vegas, NM rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.