Crime in Los Alamos, New Mexico
Major crime in Los Alamos is 70% below the U.S. rate per resident: 72% lower for persons crimes and 70% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.9% 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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Every crime type in Los Alamos is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Los Alamos 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 Los Alamos
The middle half of Los Alamos residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 15 and 26; the typical (median) resident's is 18. The citywide figure (30) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5075.2%
- 50–10024.8%
- 100–2000.0%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+0.0%
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 7.9% 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.
Los Alamos against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,965 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Los Alamos; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Los Alamos has a lower major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Española (16 mi), is 2.2 times Los Alamos's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Los Alamos
What are the most common crimes in Los Alamos?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 31 a year), shoplifting (about 13 a year) and aggravated assault (about 8 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 38% below 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. Los Alamos's figures add up its 11 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Los Alamos has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 0.0% 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: 13,872. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Los Alamos, New Mexico." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nm/los-alamos
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Española16 mi66
- Pojoaque17 mi114
- Santa Fe24 mi163
- Eldorado at Santa Fe33 mi36
- Bernalillo43 mi122
- Rio Rancho47 mi65
- North Valley52 mi229
- Paradise Hills53 mi80