Crime in Rio Communities, New Mexico
Major crime in Rio Communities is 26% below the U.S. rate per resident: 1.6 times for persons crimes and 45% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 18.6% 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.
Check an address in Rio Communities
Aggravated assault and burglary stand out most, at about 1.8 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Rio Communities 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
Neighborhoods in Rio Communities
Rio Communities is made up of 4 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 64; the middle half of residents live where it is between 51 and 68.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10077.9%
- 100–20022.1%
- 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 weekend daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 18.6% 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.
Rio Communities against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents
643 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Rio Communities; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Rio Communities has a higher major-crime index than 2 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Belen (4 mi), is 3.8 times Rio Communities's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Rio Communities
What are the most common crimes in Rio Communities?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 21 a year), burglary (about 15 a year) and other larceny (about 10 a year). Compared with the U.S., aggravated assault stands out most: 1.8 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. Rio Communities's figures add up its 4 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Rio Communities 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: 4,882. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Rio Communities, New Mexico." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nm/rio-communities
Use these numbers in your product
Any U.S. address by API or MCP, free for 10,000 lookups a month.
Get a free API keyNearest cities we publish
Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Belen4 mi278
- Los Chaves8 mi138
- El Cerro Mission12 mi66
- Los Lunas12 mi99
- Bosque Farms15 mi47
- South Valley28 mi227
- Albuquerque34 mi257
- Los Ranchos de Albuquerque37 mi142