County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Santa Fe County, NM
At 154,823 residents, Santa Fe 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).
Santa Fe County, NM reported 71 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Santa Fe County, NM agencies reported 110 violent and 414 property offenses. That equals about 71 violent and 267 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
110 violent offenses
71/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Santa Fe County, NM
Position in the state cohort
Santa Fe County reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable New Mexico counties
At 71.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Santa Fe County ranks 14 of 18 — above 4 of the 17 other New Mexico counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -48.6% 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
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 21.0% of the 524 Part I offenses reported in Santa Fe County for 2024, against a median of 31.0% across comparable New Mexico counties — a gap of 10.0 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-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 37.9% of reported property offenses in Santa Fe County, against a cohort median of 55.6%. The remainder is burglary (179) and motor vehicle theft (78). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2022–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 3 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 86.6 per 100,000 in 2022 to 71.0 in 2024 (-17.9%). The highest observed value was 86.6 in 2022 and the lowest 67.2 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
414
Burglary
179
Larceny-Theft
157
Motor Vehicle Theft
78
Arson
1
Violent Crime
110
Murder
1
Rape
8
Robbery
4
Aggravated Assault
97
Reporting Agency
Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Santa Fe County's crime figures on this page originate from Santa Fe 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.