Crime in Socorro, New Mexico
Major crime in Socorro is 1.6 times the U.S. rate per resident: 2.2 times for persons crimes and 48% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.4% 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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Burglary stands out most, at 3.7 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Socorro 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 Socorro
The middle half of Socorro residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 124 and 216; the typical (median) resident's is 142.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10018.9%
- 100–20052.7%
- 200–40028.4%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest in the daytime
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.4% 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.
Socorro against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
222 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Socorro; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Socorro has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Rio Communities (41 mi), is 54% below Socorro's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Socorro
What are the most common crimes in Socorro?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 72 a year), burglary (about 54 a year) and aggravated assault (about 52 a year). Compared with the U.S., burglary 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. Socorro's figures add up its 8 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Socorro has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 61.2% 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: 8,832. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Socorro, New Mexico." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nm/socorro
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Rio Communities41 mi74
- Belen43 mi278
- Los Chaves48 mi138
- El Cerro Mission52 mi66
- Los Lunas52 mi99
- Bosque Farms56 mi47
- Truth or Consequences67 mi92
- South Valley69 mi227