Lordsburg, NM has a D safety grade (27/100) with a violent crime rate of 832 per 100,000, 136% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Lordsburg's UCR row covers a small municipal population (2,164). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to NM and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Lordsburg, NM carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 136% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Lordsburg, NM shows violent crime at 831.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 323.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 136% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 72.0% of the 25 Part I offenses reported in Lordsburg for 2024, against a median of 21.5% across comparable New Mexico cities — a gap of 50.5 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
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 381.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 831.8 in 2024 (+117.9%). The highest observed value was 831.8 in 2024 and the lowest 381.7 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Small-count caution
Lordsburg reported 18 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 2,164. 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Lordsburg's 831.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Santa Fe (842.1), Truth or Consequences (818.7), Roswell (848.4), 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 831.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Lordsburg ranks 8 of 43 — above 35 of the 42 other New Mexico cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +74.2% 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 42.9% of reported property offenses in Lordsburg, against a cohort median of 65.6%. The remainder is burglary (1) and motor vehicle theft (3). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Violent counts are the sharper signal on Lordsburg's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Based on 18 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,164. 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 8.4 Census sq mi, Lordsburg logged 0.8 property and 2.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Lordsburg's 2024 book concentrates in aggravated assault (64% of 25 offenses; mix index 4,432).
Violent offenses are 72% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small municipal.
Lordsburg offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (8.4 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Violent Crime | 18 | 831.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 16 | 739.4 |
| Rape | 1 | 46.2 |
| Robbery | 1 | 46.2 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Property Crime | 7 | 323.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 3 | 138.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 3 | 138.6 |
| Burglary | 1 | 46.2 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 2,358 | 381.7 | 1229.9 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 2,300 | 652.2 | 521.7 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 2,229 | 628.1 | 942.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 2,179 | 458.9 | 413 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 2,164 | 831.8 | 323.5 |
Lordsburg Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Lordsburg's 25 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 Lordsburg in population. Their populations run from 1,598 to 2,743, against 2,164 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Lordsburg sits at 831.8/100K violent (grade D); the New Mexico cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Lordsburg reported 18 violent crimes and 7 property crimes, for a total of 25 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Lordsburg's violent crime rate increased by 81.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 21.7%.
The most common crime type in Lordsburg is aggravated assault, accounting for 64.0% of all reported crimes (16 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Lordsburg'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 Lordsburg's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Lordsburg, NM rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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