Crime in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Major crime in Santa Fe is 1.6 times the U.S. rate per resident: 1.7 times for persons crimes and 1.6 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 21.1% 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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Theft from vehicle stands out most, at 2.5 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Santa Fe 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 Santa Fe
The middle half of Santa Fe residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 64 and 209; the typical (median) resident's is 101. The citywide figure (163) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10049.9%
- 100–20023.7%
- 200–40021.0%
- 400+5.3%
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 21.1% 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.
Santa Fe against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
75 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Santa Fe; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Santa Fe 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, Eldorado at Santa Fe (9 mi), is 78% below Santa Fe's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Santa Fe
What are the most common crimes in Santa Fe?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 618 a year), theft from vehicle (about 594 a year) and aggravated assault (about 357 a year). Compared with the U.S., theft from vehicle stands out most: 2.5 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. Santa Fe's figures add up its 64 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Santa Fe has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 87.7% 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: 89,634. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Santa Fe, New Mexico." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nm/santa-fe
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Eldorado at Santa Fe9 mi36
- Pojoaque17 mi114
- Española24 mi66
- Los Alamos24 mi30
- Bernalillo40 mi122
- Edgewood42 mi107
- Las Vegas43 mi135
- Rio Rancho46 mi65