Crime in Belen, New Mexico
Major crime in Belen is 2.8 times the U.S. rate per resident: 4.3 times for persons crimes and 2.4 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.9% 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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Aggravated assault stands out most, at 5.4 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Belen 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 Belen
The middle half of Belen residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 204 and 254; the typical (median) resident's is 219. The citywide figure (278) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–1000.0%
- 100–20024.8%
- 200–40069.4%
- 400+5.7%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.9% 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.
Belen against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
42 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Belen; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Belen 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, Rio Communities (4 mi), is 73% below Belen's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Belen
What are the most common crimes in Belen?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 77 a year), other larceny (about 61 a year) and shoplifting (about 51 a year). Compared with the U.S., aggravated assault stands out most: 5.4 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. Belen's figures add up its 8 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Belen's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 80.1% 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: 6,234. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Belen, New Mexico." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nm/belen
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Rio Communities4 mi74
- Los Chaves6 mi138
- Los Lunas10 mi99
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- South Valley26 mi227
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