Crime in Bernalillo, New Mexico
Major crime in Bernalillo is 22% above the U.S. rate per resident: 31% higher for persons crimes and 20% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.7% 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 stands out most, at 3.0 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Bernalillo 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 Bernalillo
The middle half of Bernalillo residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 53 and 206; the typical (median) resident's is 76. The citywide figure (122) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5017.1%
- 50–10035.3%
- 100–20015.3%
- 200–40032.2%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest in the daytime
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.7% 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.
Bernalillo against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
395 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Bernalillo; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Bernalillo has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Rio Rancho (7 mi), is 47% below Bernalillo's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Bernalillo
What are the most common crimes in Bernalillo?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 86 a year), other larceny (about 35 a year) and aggravated assault (about 33 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 3.0 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. Bernalillo's figures add up its 6 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Bernalillo has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 15.3% 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: 9,032. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Bernalillo, New Mexico." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nm/bernalillo
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Rio Rancho7 mi65
- North Valley10 mi229
- Los Ranchos de Albuquerque11 mi142
- Paradise Hills11 mi80
- Albuquerque14 mi257
- South Valley20 mi227
- Edgewood27 mi107
- Bosque Farms33 mi47