Raton, NM has a C safety grade (44/100) with a violent crime rate of 470 per 100,000, 33% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Raton is a small municipal reporter (5,961 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with NM and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Raton, NM carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 33% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Raton, NM shows violent crime at 469.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,006.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 33% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 102.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 469.7 in 2024 (+357.5%). The highest observed value was 469.7 in 2024 and the lowest 68.5 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Small-count caution
Raton reported 28 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 5,961. 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 Raton's 469.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Santa Rosa (473.9), Aztec (458.3), Bernalillo (481.2), Eunice (482.1). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 40.0% of reported property offenses in Raton, against a cohort median of 65.6%. The remainder is burglary (27) and motor vehicle theft (9). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 31.8% of the 88 Part I offenses reported in Raton for 2024, against a median of 21.5% across comparable New Mexico cities — a gap of 10.3 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 469.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Raton ranks 24 of 43 — above 19 of the 42 other New Mexico cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -2.5% 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 counts dominate Raton'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 28 reported violent incidents in a population of 5,961. 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.
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 8 Census sq mi, Raton logged 7.5 property and 3.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Raton's 6 active offense types stay diversified (mix index 2,438); burglary still leads at 31%.
Violent offenses are 32% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Raton offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (8 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 | 60 | 1006.5 |
| Burglary | 27 | 452.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 24 | 402.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 9 | 151 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 28 | 469.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 22 | 369.1 |
| Rape | 3 | 50.3 |
| Robbery | 3 | 50.3 |
| 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 | 5,844 | 102.7 | 547.6 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 5,836 | 68.5 | 736.8 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 6,063 | 280.4 | 1583.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 5,946 | 285.9 | 1278.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 5,961 | 469.7 | 1006.5 |
Raton Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Raton's 88 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 Raton in population. Their populations run from 3,452 to 7,508, against 5,961 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Raton sits at 469.7/100K violent (grade C); the New Mexico cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Raton reported 28 violent crimes and 60 property crimes, for a total of 88 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Raton's violent crime rate increased by 64.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 21.3%.
The most common crime type in Raton is burglary, accounting for 30.7% of all reported crimes (27 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Raton 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 Raton's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Raton, NM rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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