Safest counties for violent crime rate in New Mexico

Top 25 of 33 counties with data.

Ranked by violent crime rate (FBI Crime Data Explorer (per-agency, 2018-2022 average), FBI CDE 2020-2024 avg), lowest first.

Safest counties for violent crime rate in New Mexico
Rank	County	Value
1	Los Alamos	49.4 per 100k
2	Quay	52.5 per 100k
3	Grant	76.4 per 100k
4	Lincoln	79.5 per 100k
5	Rio Arriba	91.0 per 100k
6	Catron	143.1 per 100k
7	Luna	143.8 per 100k
8	Taos	180.4 per 100k
9	Union	184.5 per 100k
10	Cibola	204.4 per 100k
11	Sandoval	214.1 per 100k
12	Guadalupe	218.7 per 100k
13	Socorro	241.1 per 100k
14	Colfax	241.3 per 100k
15	Otero	244.5 per 100k
16	Mora	307.7 per 100k
17	Roosevelt	356.2 per 100k
18	Torrance	358.8 per 100k
19	San Miguel	379.5 per 100k
20	Hidalgo	443.9 per 100k
21	Curry	463.2 per 100k
22	Sierra	468.8 per 100k
23	Eddy	469.8 per 100k
24	Valencia	498.9 per 100k
25	De Baca	523.0 per 100k

How this ranking works

This page ranks New Mexico counties by violent crime rate, sorted so the safest places appear first. Click any county to see its housing, schools, crime, and demographics in detail.

For violent crime rate, a lower value is generally more favorable, so the top of the list is the lowest. Want to weigh violent crime rate against schools, taxes, commute, and more at once? Use the live map to build a custom match.

Data comes from public sources. Source attribution and the exact data vintage are shown above and on the full map of violent crime rate.

Safest Counties (Lowest Violent Crime) in New Mexico (2026)

Safest counties for violent crime rate in New Mexico

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