Santa Fe, NM has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 842 per 100,000, 139% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 89,652 residents, Santa Fe is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against NM and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Santa Fe, NM carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 139% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Santa Fe, NM shows violent crime at 842.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 5,156.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 139% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 460.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 842.1 in 2024 (+82.8%). The highest observed value was 923.3 in 2022 and the lowest 460.6 in 2020. 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 Santa Fe's 842.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Roswell (848.4), Lordsburg (831.8), Truth or Consequences (818.7), 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 842.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Santa Fe ranks 7 of 43 — above 36 of the 42 other New Mexico cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +76.3% 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 14.0% of the 5,378 Part I offenses reported in Santa Fe for 2024, against a median of 21.6% across comparable New Mexico cities — a gap of 7.5 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.
Property counts dominate Santa Fe'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Across 52.2 Census sq mi, Santa Fe logged 88.5 property and 14.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Santa Fe leans on larceny-theft at 56% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,752.
Violent offenses are only 14% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Santa Fe offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (52.2 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 | 4,623 | 5156.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 3,031 | 3380.9 |
| Burglary | 873 | 973.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 719 | 802 |
| Arson | 27 | 30.1 |
| Violent Crime | 755 | 842.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 613 | 683.8 |
| Robbery | 80 | 89.2 |
| Rape | 58 | 64.7 |
| Murder | 4 | 4.5 |
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 | 85,101 | 460.6 | 2831.9 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 85,404 | 920.3 | 3629.8 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 88,705 | 923.3 | 4934.3 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 89,657 | 863.3 | 5020.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 89,652 | 842.1 | 5156.6 |
Santa Fe Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Santa Fe's 5,378 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 Santa Fe in population. Their populations run from 20,019 to 115,977, against 89,652 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Santa Fe sits at 842.1/100K violent (grade F); the New Mexico cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Santa Fe at 842.1/100K violent and 5,156.6/100K property - matched below outside New Mexico (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
842.1/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
5,156.6/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-2.5% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Santa Fe reported 755 violent crimes and 4,623 property crimes, for a total of 5,378 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Santa Fe's violent crime rate decreased by 2.5%, and the property crime rate increased by 2.7%.
The most common crime type in Santa Fe is larceny-theft, accounting for 56.4% of all reported crimes (3,031 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Santa Fe's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Large-city rate methodology for how Santa Fe's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Santa Fe, NM rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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