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Safest cities in New Mexico? Lowest and highest property-crime candidates

Use this hub to compare validated New Mexico city candidates by reported selected property-offense rate. It is a cautious city-page index, not a statewide safety ranking or personal-risk score.

Candidate-city rate 38.10 per 1,000 residents across listed cities; not a statewide risk score

Validated cities27Current candidate pages

Candidate population1,290,479Sum of listed city estimates

Selected offenses49,168FBI NIBRS offense records

Highest-rate city candidates

Use the city pages for source notes, trend handling, and offense mix. Small or ambiguous places remain outside automatic publication.

6,505 residents Taos 60.26 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 90,265 residents Santa Fe 52.79 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 116,334 residents Las Cruces 49.47 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 558,878 residents Albuquerque 47.85 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 7,541 residents Belen 42.97 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 20,252 residents Gallup 38.96 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents

Lowest-rate city candidates

Searchers often ask for the safest cities in a state. This section answers that intent carefully by showing the lowest reported selected property-offense rates among validated city candidates only.

8,863 residents Anthony 2.37 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 8,517 residents Corrales 3.99 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 18,089 residents Sunland Park 6.25 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 6,014 residents Raton 11.81 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 6,156 residents Edgewood 12.83 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 9,148 residents Bernalillo 13.55 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents

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New Mexico city candidates

City	Population	Selected offenses	Rate per 1,000	Trend
Taos	6,505	392	60.26	Roughly stable
Santa Fe	90,265	4,765	52.79	Roughly stable
Las Cruces	116,334	5,755	49.47	Increasing
Albuquerque	558,878	26,745	47.85	Roughly stable
Belen	7,541	324	42.97	Roughly stable
Gallup	20,252	789	38.96	Decreasing
Hobbs	40,685	1,543	37.93	Increasing
Carlsbad	32,152	1,009	31.38	Roughly stable
Portales	11,829	354	29.93	Increasing
Los Lunas	19,944	595	29.83	Mixed
Alamogordo	32,064	919	28.66	Roughly stable
Farmington	46,154	1,174	25.44	Roughly stable
Truth or Consequences	5,963	149	24.99	Increasing
Roswell	47,207	1,178	24.95	Decreasing
Artesia	12,636	278	22.00	Roughly stable
Grants	8,922	150	16.81	Increasing
Bloomfield	7,347	121	16.47	Increasing
Clovis	37,734	618	16.38	Decreasing
Las Vegas	12,723	195	15.33	Decreasing
Aztec	6,110	90	14.73	Roughly stable
Rio Rancho	112,447	1,583	14.08	Decreasing
Bernalillo	9,148	124	13.55	Trend pending
Edgewood	6,156	79	12.83	Decreasing
Raton	6,014	71	11.81	Decreasing
Sunland Park	18,089	113	6.25	Roughly stable
Corrales	8,517	34	3.99	Decreasing
Anthony	8,863	21	2.37	Decreasing

Important context

These figures are based on reported selected property offenses and Census population context for validated city candidates. Agency reporting boundaries can differ from municipal boundaries, so the methodology page explains why ambiguous or tiny-denominator rows stay out of automatic publication.

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