County crime profile · 2024 · very large county · property-led
At 676,444 residents, Bernalillo County is a very large county in New Mexico. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Data updated 2026-08-24
Bernalillo County, NM reported 100 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Bernalillo County, NM agencies reported 675 violent and 1,954 property offenses. That equals about 100 violent and 289 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
Share of the state cohort
The 2,629 Part I offenses reported here are 33.0% of the 7,972 reported across all 18 comparable New Mexico counties in 2024. A county this large moves the statewide total on its own, so state-level changes should be read against its population of 676,444 rather than as a uniform shift.
Position in the state cohort
At 99.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Bernalillo County ranks 13 of 18 — above 5 of the 17 other New Mexico counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -27.9% against the cohort median of 138.3. Counties 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 25.7% of the 2,629 Part I offenses reported in Bernalillo County for 2024, against a median of 31.0% across comparable New Mexico counties — a gap of 5.3 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.
2021–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 111.3 per 100,000 in 2021 to 99.8 in 2024 (-10.4%). The highest observed value was 115.2 in 2023 and the lowest 99.8 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
On a very large county row, county figures aggregate every participating agency inside the county. Participation is voluntary. Per-100,000 rates use a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census county population, never a Table 10 field; unmatched counties stay count-only. A large county line encloses very different communities.
| Category | Count |
|---|---|
| Property Crime | 1,954 |
| Burglary | 378 |
| Larceny-Theft | 1,086 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 490 |
| Arson | 10 |
| Violent Crime | 675 |
| Murder | 15 |
| Rape | 66 |
| Robbery | 61 |
| Aggravated Assault | 533 |
Bernalillo County's crime figures on this page originate from Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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.
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the New Mexico counties closest to Bernalillo County in population. Their populations run from 76,205 to 219,561, against 676,444 here. Or launch the side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two jurisdictions directly.
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Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States (CIUS) Table 10.
FBI Table 10 supplies county offense counts but no resident population. Where this page shows a per-100,000 rate, the denominator is a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census Bureau county population; unmatched county rows remain count-only. Statewide comparisons draw on the state UCR program. Verify with FBI.gov UCR and Census.gov QuickFacts.
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