Crime in Rio Rancho, New Mexico
Major crime in Rio Rancho is 35% below the U.S. rate per resident: 8% lower for persons crimes and 41% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 17.2% 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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Simple assault stands out most, at 38% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Rio Rancho 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 Rio Rancho
The middle half of Rio Rancho residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 31 and 62; the typical (median) resident's is 42. The citywide figure (65) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5064.3%
- 50–10024.2%
- 100–2009.2%
- 200–4001.8%
- 400+0.5%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 17.2% 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 Rancho against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
225 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Rio Rancho; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Rio Rancho has a higher major-crime index than 1 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Paradise Hills (6 mi), is 24% above Rio Rancho's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Rio Rancho
What are the most common crimes in Rio Rancho?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 358 a year), shoplifting (about 318 a year) and aggravated assault (about 272 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: 38% above 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 Rancho's figures add up its 57 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Rio Rancho has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 38.9% 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: 115,982. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Rio Rancho, New Mexico." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nm/rio-rancho
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Paradise Hills6 mi80
- Bernalillo7 mi122
- North Valley7 mi229
- Los Ranchos de Albuquerque8 mi142
- Albuquerque12 mi257
- South Valley17 mi227
- Bosque Farms30 mi47
- Edgewood31 mi107