New Mexico's comparable FBI window (2014–2024, 11 years) splits: one major offense rate rose while the other fell — the lead series is the larger |endpoint %| move.
Split-window verdict
New Mexico's violent crime rate rose 22.1% from 2014 to 2024; its property crime rate fell 23.2%. A single combined label would hide that split, so the evidence below keeps the two series separate.
Latest national comparison
For 2024, the state rate was 696.9 per 100,000 versus 352.0 across the state records in this dataset, a gap of 98.0% above. This is a state-level benchmark, not a neighborhood-safety conclusion.
Full-window endpoints
Violent crime moved from 570.9 to 696.9 per 100,000 (+22.1%). Property crime moved from 3522.3 to 2705.6 (-23.2%). These are endpoint comparisons, not proof that every intervening year followed the same direction.
Recent direction check
From 2021 to 2024, the violent-crime rate fell 4.2%, compared with +22.1% across the full 2014-2024 window. That difference is why the latest few observations should be read separately from the decade-scale endpoints.
Peak and trough
The highest observed violent-crime rate was 783.6 in 2018; the lowest was 570.9 in 2014. The latest value lies 59% of the way from that low to that peak, which shows whether the endpoint is close to an extreme or near the middle of the observed range.
Year-to-year movement
The largest annual change ran from 2016 to 2017: +16.4%. Across the full sequence, 5 year-to-year steps rose by more than 1% and 4 fell by more than 1%. A single sharp step can reflect participation or reporting changes as well as a real change in recorded offenses.
New Mexico's property rate rose 15.0% (+369.8 per 100K) from 2021 to 2022 (2472.5 → 2842.3) — the sharpest comparable year-to-year step in this window. The largest move the other way was dropped 13.2% from 2017 to 2018 (3853.7 → 3345.1).
New Mexico's property gap vs the US aggregate moved from 39.7% above in 2014 to 58.1% above in 2024 (+18.4 pp).
| Year | Coverage | Population | Property | Rate | YoY | Violent | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Comparable | 2,130,256 | 57,637 | 2705.6 | ↓ 2.1% | 14,845 | 696.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 2,114,371 | 58,431 | 2763.5 | ↓ 2.8% | 14,968 | 707.9 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 2,113,344 | 60,068 | 2842.3 | ↑ 15.0% | 15,764 | 745.9 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 2,115,877 | 52,315 | 2472.5 | ↓ 6.0% | 15,385 | 727.1 |
| 2020 | Comparable | 2,106,319 | 55,413 | 2630.8 | ↓ 11.5% | 15,225 | 722.8 |
| 2019 | Comparable | 2,096,829 | 62,339 | 2973 | ↓ 11.1% | 15,659 | 746.8 |
| 2018 | Comparable | 2,095,428 | 70,094 | 3345.1 | ↓ 13.2% | 16,420 | 783.6 |
| 2017 | Comparable | 2,088,070 | 80,467 | 3853.7 | ↓ 1.0% | 16,125 | 772.2 |
| 2016 | Comparable | 2,081,015 | 80,973 | 3891 | ↑ 5.7% | 13,802 | 663.2 |
| 2015 | Comparable | 2,085,109 | 76,739 | 3680.3 | ↑ 4.5% | 12,632 | 605.8 |
| 2014 | Comparable | 2,085,572 | 73,460 | 3522.3 | - | 11,906 | 570.9 |
More in New Mexico: overview, safest cities, most dangerous, compare. Methodology — FBI UCR / Crime Data Explorer rates per 100,000 for New Mexico (2014–2024); Census population where FBI denominators are missing.