Crime in Las Cruces, New Mexico
Major crime in Las Cruces is 1.9 times the U.S. rate per resident: 1.6 times for persons crimes and 2.0 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 20.6% 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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Vandalism stands out most, at 3.3 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Las Cruces 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 Las Cruces
The middle half of Las Cruces residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 65 and 206; the typical (median) resident's is 103. The citywide figure (189) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5019.2%
- 50–10027.8%
- 100–20027.6%
- 200–40017.0%
- 400+8.4%
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 20.6% 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.
Las Cruces against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
38 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Las Cruces; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Las Cruces 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, University Park (5 mi), is 60% below Las Cruces's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Las Cruces
What are the most common crimes in Las Cruces?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 1,189 a year), other larceny (about 769 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 765 a year). Compared with the U.S., vandalism stands out most: 3.3 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. Las Cruces's figures add up its 84 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Las Cruces has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 92.4% 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: 122,435. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Las Cruces, New Mexico." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nm/las-cruces
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