Decision-support ranking comparing New Mexico cities by current violent crime per 1,000 using the currently published coarse crime context, then routing readers into each city brief for tract context and caveats.
Ranked rows are precomputed and served as static HTML from R2.
| # | Place | Metric | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Albuquerque Violent Crime has declined 17% since 2021. |
10.5 / 1k | → |
| 2 | Farmington Violent Crime has declined 14% since 2021. |
9.6 / 1k | → |
| 3 | Belen Violent Crime has declined 5% since 2022. |
8.8 / 1k | → |
| 4 | Roswell Violent Crime has declined 1% since 2022. |
7.7 / 1k | → |
| 5 | Santa Fe Violent Crime has declined 8% since 2022. |
7.7 / 1k | → |
| 6 | Hobbs Violent Crime has increased 85% since 2021. |
7.6 / 1k | → |
| 7 | Las Cruces Violent Crime has increased 25% since 2021. |
7.0 / 1k | → |
| 8 | Portales Violent Crime has increased 15% since 2022. |
7.0 / 1k | → |
| 9 | Los Lunas Violent Crime has increased 63% since 2021. |
5.7 / 1k | → |
| 10 | Carlsbad Violent Crime has declined 13% since 2021. |
4.6 / 1k | → |
| 11 | Artesia Violent Crime has increased 105% since 2021. |
4.3 / 1k | → |
| 12 | Alamogordo Violent Crime has declined 16% since 2023. |
3.2 / 1k | → |
| 13 | Rio Rancho Violent Crime has declined 30% since 2022. |
3.1 / 1k | → |
| 14 | Clovis Violent Crime has declined 61% since 2022. |
2.3 / 1k | → |
| 15 | Los Alamos Violent Crime has been relatively flat over the tracked period. |
0.6 / 1k | → |
This page is useful for a current statewide pressure screen. It compares supported New Mexico cities by aggregate violent-crime rate before you open the deeper city briefs. Outside Colorado, this remains statewide fallback context rather than local incident-feed depth.
A current city rate does not tell you whether conditions are improving, how concentrated the pressure is, or which neighborhoods are driving it. Open the city brief and neighborhood pages next.