Sunland Park, NM carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 7% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Sunland Park, NM shows violent crime at 327.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 577.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 7% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
B safety grade
327.9/100K violent
577.9/100K property
-7% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Sunland Park, NM
Comparable rate records
Sunland Park's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Mexico cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Sunland Park's 327.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Alamogordo (334.4), Rio Rancho (318.2), Questa (389.5), Edgewood (392.6). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 36.2% of the 163 Part I offenses reported in Sunland Park for 2024, against a median of 21.5% across comparable New Mexico cities — a gap of 14.7 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 520.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 327.9 in 2024 (-37.0%). The highest observed value was 520.7 in 2020 and the lowest 327.9 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Sunland Park sits mid-pack among comparable New Mexico cities
At 327.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Sunland Park ranks 30 of 43 — above 13 of the 42 other New Mexico cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -31.9% 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 Sunland Park'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.
Sunland Park's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 14.7 Census sq mi, Sunland Park logged 7.1 property and 4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Sunland Park leans on larceny-theft at 44% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,071.
Violent offenses are 36% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a mid-size city.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (14.7 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
-23.5%
755.7 → 577.9/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-20.4%
411.7 → 327.9/100K
Property offenses lead Sunland Park's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs NM
Property Crime
104
577.9
2705.6
Larceny-Theft
72
400.1
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
17
94.5
-
Burglary
15
83.4
-
Arson
3
16.7
-
Violent Crime
59
327.9
696.9
Aggravated Assault
49
272.3
-
Rape
6
33.3
-
Robbery
4
22.2
-
Murder
0
0
-
Sunland Park Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Sunland Park 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
Sunland Park Police Department
Reporting agency for Sunland Park NIBRS-participating
Sunland Park Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Sunland Park's 163 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 Sunland Park in population. Their populations run from 8,953 to 20,019, against 17,996 here. Or use our
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Sunland Park at 327.9/100K violent and 577.9/100K property - matched below outside New Mexico (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Sunland Park reported 59 violent crimes and 104 property crimes, for a total of 163 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Sunland Park?
From 2023 to 2024, Sunland Park's violent crime rate decreased by 20.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 23.5%.
What is the most common crime in Sunland Park?
The most common crime type in Sunland Park is larceny-theft, accounting for 44.2% of all reported crimes (72 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Sunland Park 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 Sunland Park, NM rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.