City Population Violent / 100K Property / 100K Grade
Albuquerque 558,745 1,181.8 4,628.8 F
Las Cruces 115,977 720 4,873.4 F
Rio Rancho 112,817 318.2 1,339.3 C
Santa Fe 89,652 842.1 5,156.6 F
Roswell 46,677 848.4 2,508.7 F
Farmington 46,150 951.2 2,459.4 F
Hobbs 38,972 790.3 3,751.4 F
Alamogordo 31,401 334.4 2,847 C
Carlsbad 31,243 524.9 2,791 F
Gallup 20,019 1,503.6 3,896.3 F
Los Lunas 19,707 583.5 2,912.7 F
Los Alamos 19,609 56.1 397.8 A+
Sunland Park 17,996 327.9 577.9 B
Las Vegas 12,816 655.4 1,466.9 F
Artesia 12,152 493.7 2,156 D
Portales 11,772 781.5 2,871.2 F
Bernalillo 9,144 481.2 1,312.3 C
Grants 8,953 424.4 1,619.6 C
Anthony 8,733 80.2 240.5 A+
Corrales 8,653 231.1 392.9 B
Belen 7,508 1,158.8 4,235.5 F
Bloomfield 7,330 709.4 1,459.8 F
Taos 6,406 936.6 5,978.8 F
Edgewood 6,113 392.6 1,243.3 C
Aztec 6,109 458.3 1,456.9 C
Truth or Consequences 5,985 818.7 2,472.8 F
Raton 5,961 469.7 1,006.5 C
Bosque Farms 4,094 146.6 659.5 A
Peralta 3,452 144.8 724.2 A
Eunice 2,904 482.1 2,651.5 D
Santa Rosa 2,743 473.9 911.4 C
Tularosa 2,614 114.8 382.6 A
Clayton 2,559 508 1,094.2 C
Milan 2,456 203.6 936.5 B
Lordsburg 2,164 831.8 323.5 D
Jal 2,075 0 144.6 A+
Bayard 2,046 537.6 1,955 D
Questa 1,797 389.5 445.2 C
Santa Clara 1,598 187.7 1,189 B
Hatch 1,575 571.4 1,523.8 D
Capitan 1,391 215.7 647 B
Hurley 1,221 0 0 A+
Red River 535 0 186.9 A+
Showing cities 1–43 of 43 in New Mexico, by population. See the New Mexico safest and most dangerous city rankings, or the New Mexico crime overview.

How These City Grades Are Calculated

Each grade weighs a city's violent crime rate (70%) and property crime rate (30%) against the national averages, drawn from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States, Table 8 for 2024. Rates use (offenses ÷ population) × 100,000.

UCR participation is voluntary, so not every New Mexico city reports every year, and small-population cities can show volatile rates where a single incident moves the per-capita figure sharply. Read the full methodology for the scoring formula and limitations.