Crime in Roswell, New Mexico
Major crime in Roswell is 1.8 times the U.S. rate per resident: 2.4 times for persons crimes and 1.6 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 4.7% 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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Simple assault stands out most, at 3.7 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Roswell 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 Roswell
The middle half of Roswell residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 67 and 239; the typical (median) resident's is 107. The citywide figure (177) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5011.1%
- 50–10036.4%
- 100–20022.7%
- 200–40017.9%
- 400+11.9%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekends
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime rose 4.7% 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.
Roswell against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
81 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Roswell; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Roswell has a higher major-crime index than 7 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Artesia (39 mi), is 32% below Roswell's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Roswell
What are the most common crimes in Roswell?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 444 a year), aggravated assault (about 310 a year) and other larceny (about 281 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: 3.7 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. Roswell's figures add up its 41 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Roswell's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 47.0% 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: 49,322. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Roswell, New Mexico." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nm/roswell
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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