County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Sandoval County, NM
At 148,834 residents, Sandoval 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).
Sandoval County, NM reported 54 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Sandoval County, NM agencies reported 81 violent and 142 property offenses. That equals about 54 violent and 95 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
81 violent offenses
54/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Sandoval County, NM
Position in the state cohort
Sandoval County reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable New Mexico counties
At 54.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Sandoval County ranks 15 of 18 — above 3 of the 17 other New Mexico counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -60.7% 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 make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 36.3% of the 223 Part I offenses reported in Sandoval County for 2024, against a median of 25.7% across comparable New Mexico counties — a gap of 10.6 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.
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
142
Burglary
49
Larceny-Theft
73
Motor Vehicle Theft
20
Arson
3
Violent Crime
81
Murder
1
Rape
6
Robbery
0
Aggravated Assault
74
Reporting Agency
Sandoval County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Sandoval County's crime figures on this page originate from Sandoval 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
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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.