Crime in South Valley, New Mexico
Major crime in South Valley is 2.3 times the U.S. rate per resident: 3.4 times for persons crimes and 2.0 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.3% 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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Aggravated assault stands out most, at 3.9 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in South Valley 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 South Valley
The middle half of South Valley residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 104 and 214; the typical (median) resident's is 144. The citywide figure (227) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10018.4%
- 100–20054.5%
- 200–40020.4%
- 400+6.8%
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 9.3% 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.
South Valley against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
32 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than South Valley; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
South Valley 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, Albuquerque (7 mi), is 13% above South Valley's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in South Valley
What are the most common crimes in South Valley?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 344 a year), shoplifting (about 314 a year) and other larceny (about 308 a year). Compared with the U.S., aggravated assault stands out most: 3.9 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. South Valley's figures add up its 25 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- South Valley's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 78.1% 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: 38,228. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in South Valley, New Mexico." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nm/south-valley
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Albuquerque7 mi257
- Los Ranchos de Albuquerque9 mi142
- North Valley11 mi229
- Paradise Hills11 mi80
- Bosque Farms13 mi47
- Los Lunas17 mi99
- Rio Rancho17 mi65
- El Cerro Mission19 mi66