Crime in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Major crime in Albuquerque is 2.6 times the U.S. rate per resident: 3.3 times for persons crimes and 2.4 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 12.4% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.
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Shoplifting and aggravated assault stand out most, at about 3.7 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Albuquerque for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Albuquerque
The middle half of Albuquerque residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 79 and 316; the typical (median) resident's is 171. The citywide figure (257) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–509.9%
- 50–10024.0%
- 100–20023.5%
- 200–40027.1%
- 400+15.5%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekends
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 12.4% in a year; across New Mexico it fell 12.2%
Change in expected crimes, with New Mexico as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Albuquerque against U.S. places with 500,000 to 1 million residents
6 of the 25 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Albuquerque; the middle of the group is 190. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Albuquerque has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Los Ranchos de Albuquerque (4 mi), is 45% below Albuquerque's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Albuquerque
What are the most common crimes in Albuquerque?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 6,633 a year), aggravated assault (about 4,670 a year) and other larceny (about 3,905 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 3.7 times the U.S. rate per resident.
How we calculated this
Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Albuquerque's figures add up its 390 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Albuquerque's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 82.8% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
- Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
- Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
- Residents: 561,025. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Albuquerque, New Mexico." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nm/albuquerque
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Los Ranchos de Albuquerque4 mi142
- North Valley4 mi229
- South Valley7 mi227
- Paradise Hills8 mi80
- Rio Rancho12 mi65
- Bernalillo14 mi122
- Bosque Farms19 mi47
- Los Lunas23 mi99