State crime profile · 2024
New Mexico Crime Rates: Safest & Most Dangerous Cities
Crime data for 43 cities and 19 of 33 counties in New Mexico (NM), ranked safest to most dangerous from 135 reporting agencies.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 696.9
- Violent / 100K
- 2,705.6
- Property / 100K
- 43
- Cities
- 19
- Counties
New Mexico violent crime is 696.9 per 100,000, 98% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, New Mexico records 696.9 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, 98% above the national average (about the 49th-safest of 51 states and D.C.). Statewide averages hide city and county variation; UCR participation is voluntary.
- 696.9 violent crimes per 100K
- +98% vs. the U.S. average
- 49th safest of 51 states & DC
- 2,705.6 property crimes per 100K
How safe is New Mexico? FBI UCR data snapshot
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.
The FBI's state-level summary reports violent and property crime as aggregate totals rather than broken out by individual offense type (murder, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, arson). For an offense-by-offense breakdown, see the individual city and county pages for New Mexico below, which draw on FBI UCR Tables 8 and 10 and do report each offense type separately.
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.
How New Mexico ranks nationally
New Mexico vs. every U.S. state
Violent crime per 100,000 residents, FBI UCR 2024. Lower is safer.
697 4th percentile among 51 U.S. states
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Source FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · 2024
Safest cities · Most dangerous cities · Crime trends
Crime Trends
| Year | Population | Violent Crime | Rate | Property Crime | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2,130,256 | 14,845 | 696.9 | 57,637 | 2705.6 |
| 2023 | 2,114,371 | 14,968 | 707.9 | 58,431 | 2763.5 |
| 2022 | 2,113,344 | 15,764 | 745.9 | 60,068 | 2842.3 |
| 2021 | 2,115,877 | 15,385 | 727.1 | 52,315 | 2472.5 |
| 2020 | 2,106,319 | 15,225 | 722.8 | 55,413 | 2630.8 |
| 2019 | 2,096,829 | 15,659 | 746.8 | 62,339 | 2973 |
| 2018 | 2,095,428 | 16,420 | 783.6 | 70,094 | 3345.1 |
| 2017 | 2,088,070 | 16,125 | 772.2 | 80,467 | 3853.7 |
| 2016 | 2,081,015 | 13,802 | 663.2 | 80,973 | 3891 |
| 2015 | 2,085,109 | 12,632 | 605.8 | 76,739 | 3680.3 |
| 2014 | 2,085,572 | 11,906 | 570.9 | 73,460 | 3522.3 |
Cities in New Mexico
Safest cities in New Mexico
Cities with 25,000+ residents, lowest violent crime per 100,000, FBI UCR 2024. Hover a bar for the exact rate.
- Rio Rancho 318
Rio Rancho
318 /100K
- Alamogordo 334
Alamogordo
334 /100K
- Carlsbad
Carlsbad
525 /100K
- Las Cruces
Las Cruces
720 /100K
- Hobbs
Hobbs
790 /100K
- Santa Fe
Santa Fe
842 /100K
- Roswell
Roswell
848 /100K
- Farmington
Farmington
951 /100K
What this shows Rio Rancho is the safest sizeable city in New Mexico, at 318.2 violent crimes per 100,000.
Highest violent-crime cities in New Mexico
Cities with 25,000+ residents, highest violent crime per 100,000, FBI UCR 2024. Hover a bar for the exact rate.
- Albuquerque
Albuquerque
1,182 /100K
- Farmington
Farmington
951 /100K
- Roswell
Roswell
848 /100K
- Santa Fe
Santa Fe
842 /100K
- Hobbs
Hobbs
790 /100K
- Las Cruces
Las Cruces
720 /100K
- Carlsbad
Carlsbad
525 /100K
- Alamogordo 334
Alamogordo
334 /100K
What this shows Albuquerque reports the highest big-city violent-crime rate in New Mexico, at 1,181.8 per 100,000.
Albuquerque is both volume #1 and rate #1 among 9 New Mexico cities with 25,000+ residents in FBI UCR 2024. That non-invert is disclosed, not hidden.
| City | Population | Violent / 100K | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albuquerque | 558,745 | 1,181.8 | F |
| Las Cruces | 115,977 | 720 | F |
| Rio Rancho | 112,817 | 318.2 | C |
| Santa Fe | 89,652 | 842.1 | F |
| Roswell | 46,677 | 848.4 | F |
| Farmington | 46,150 | 951.2 | F |
| Hobbs | 38,972 | 790.3 | F |
| Alamogordo | 31,401 | 334.4 | C |
| Carlsbad | 31,243 | 524.9 | F |
| Gallup | 20,019 | 1,503.6 | F |
| Los Lunas | 19,707 | 583.5 | F |
| Los Alamos | 19,609 | 56.1 | A+ |
| Sunland Park | 17,996 | 327.9 | B |
| Las Vegas | 12,816 | 655.4 | F |
| Artesia | 12,152 | 493.7 | D |
| Portales | 11,772 | 781.5 | F |
| Bernalillo | 9,144 | 481.2 | C |
| Grants | 8,953 | 424.4 | C |
| Anthony | 8,733 | 80.2 | A+ |
| Corrales | 8,653 | 231.1 | B |
| Belen | 7,508 | 1,158.8 | F |
| Bloomfield | 7,330 | 709.4 | F |
| Taos | 6,406 | 936.6 | F |
| Edgewood | 6,113 | 392.6 | C |
| Aztec | 6,109 | 458.3 | C |
| Truth or Consequences | 5,985 | 818.7 | F |
| Raton | 5,961 | 469.7 | C |
| Bosque Farms | 4,094 | 146.6 | A |
| Peralta | 3,452 | 144.8 | A |
| Eunice | 2,904 | 482.1 | D |
| Santa Rosa | 2,743 | 473.9 | C |
| Tularosa | 2,614 | 114.8 | A |
| Clayton | 2,559 | 508 | C |
| Milan | 2,456 | 203.6 | B |
| Lordsburg | 2,164 | 831.8 | D |
| Jal | 2,075 | 0 | A+ |
| Bayard | 2,046 | 537.6 | D |
| Questa | 1,797 | 389.5 | C |
| Santa Clara | 1,598 | 187.7 | B |
| Hatch | 1,575 | 571.4 | D |
| Capitan | 1,391 | 215.7 | B |
| Hurley | 1,221 | 0 | A+ |
| Red River | 535 | 0 | A+ |
Counties in New Mexico
19 of 33 Census county-equivalents (57.6%) appear in FBI Table 10 for this vintage. Missing counties are absent from the FBI source for this year, not dropped by PlainCrime. See national county coverage and methodology.
Largest counties in New Mexico, violent crime per 100K
Top 8 counties by population, violent crime per 100,000 residents. Hover a bar for the exact rate.
- Bernalillo 100
Bernalillo
100 /100K
- Dona Ana
Dona Ana
154 /100K
- Santa Fe 71
Santa Fe
71 /100K
- Sandoval 54
Sandoval
54 /100K
- San Juan
San Juan
223 /100K
- Valencia
Valencia
304 /100K
- Lea
Lea
138 /100K
- McKinley 115
McKinley
115 /100K
Nationwide peers for New Mexico
Similar violent rate (~696.9/100K)
Similar property rate (~2,705.6/100K)
- Washington · 2498.3/100K property
- Oregon · 2409.8/100K property
- Nevada · 2226.3/100K property
- Kansas · 2090/100K property
Nearby States
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Primary source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States annual release. State-level trends cross-check against the FBI Crime Data Explorer (CDE) API.
Population figures for rate calculations reference U.S. Census Bureau estimates where FBI-reported populations are unavailable. Verify with Census.gov QuickFacts.
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