New Mexico Crime Rates: Safest & Most Dangerous Cities

FBI UCR Data Snapshot: New Mexico

New Mexico (NM) reported 14,845 violent crimes and 57,637 property crimes in 2024, based on FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program submissions from 135 law enforcement agencies. That translates to a statewide violent crime rate of 696.9 per 100,000 residents and a property crime rate of 2705.6 per 100,000 against a reporting population of 2,130,256. The PlainCrime dataset indexes 43 New Mexico cities and 19 counties, each with their own detail pages and local crime figures drawn from FBI UCR Tables 8 and 10.

Within the statewide violent crime total, aggravated assault accounted for 0 incidents, robbery 0, murder and non-negligent manslaughter 0, and rape 0. Property crime splits across larceny-theft (0), burglary (0), motor vehicle theft (0), and arson (0).

Across 11 years of state-level UCR history (2014–2024), the violent crime rate moved from 570.9 to 696.9 per 100,000 — a rise of 22.1%. City-level detail pages within New Mexico include safety grades (A+ to F), benchmarks against national averages, per-capita risk estimates, and multi-year trend tables for users comparing specific jurisdictions. All figures above are drawn from FBI UCR 2024 submissions; reporting completeness varies by agency, and the FBI periodically restates prior-year figures as late submissions arrive.