County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Dona Ana County, NM
At 219,561 residents, Dona Ana County is a large county in New Mexico. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Dona Ana County, NM reported 154 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Dona Ana County, NM agencies reported 338 violent and 1,106 property offenses. That equals about 154 violent and 504 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
2024 UCR year
338 violent offenses
154/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Dona Ana County, NM
Position in the state cohort
Dona Ana County sits mid-pack among comparable New Mexico counties
At 153.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Dona Ana County ranks 6 of 18 — above 12 of the 17 other New Mexico counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +28.6% against the cohort median of 119.7. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Share of the state cohort
Dona Ana County carries a large share of the reporting cohort’s total offenses
The 1,444 Part I offenses reported here are 18.1% 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 219,561 rather than as a uniform shift.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 23.4% of the 1,444 Part I offenses reported in Dona Ana County for 2024, against a median of 31.0% across comparable New Mexico counties — a gap of 7.6 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 higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 138.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 153.9 in 2024 (+10.8%). The highest observed value was 154.4 in 2022 and the lowest 124.8 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
On a 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.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · large county
Category
Count
Property Crime
1,106
Burglary
269
Larceny-Theft
616
Motor Vehicle Theft
221
Arson
7
Violent Crime
338
Murder
3
Rape
33
Robbery
7
Aggravated Assault
295
Reporting Agency
Dona Ana County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Dona Ana County's crime figures on this page originate from Dona Ana 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.
Similar-Size Counties in New Mexico
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the New Mexico counties closest to Dona Ana County in population. Their populations run from 74,455 to 154,823, against 219,561 here. Or launch the
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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.