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Safest Places to Live in New Mexico of January 2025

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Last Update: December 1, 2024 • Living •

New Mexico is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. It borders Utah, Colorado, Texas, Arizona, and a part of Mexico to the south.

New Mexico became a state very late, in 1912. Before that, it was home to Native Americans, and it was a Spanish colony. After this, it was a part of independent Mexico but became a part of the US after the Mexican-American War. This is the reason why New Mexico has the highest percentage of the Hispanic population of all states. Likewise, its culture is a mix of Native American, Spanish, Mexican and American cultures.

With over 2 million residents, New Mexico is the 36th most populous state. It is also the fifth-largest state by area and the sixth least densely populated of all states. The capital of New Mexico is Santa Fe, while the largest city is Albuquerque, which has 560,000 residents.

Ranking Criteria

ElitePersonalFinance extracted the latest data from the FBI crime statistics in the United States. We took violent crime as the main criteria. To get our score, we used this formula:

Crime Score = ( Total Number of Violent Crimes / Population ) * 1,000

This way, safer cities got the lowest score, and those more vulnerable to crimes got higher scores.

The cities that did not report crimes to the FBI and those under 3,000 residents were not included in the list.

10 Safest Places in New Mexico of January 2025

Rank:	City:	Population:	Total Number of Crimes:	Crime Score:
1	Lovington	11 322	12	1,06
2	Milan	3 632	4	1,10
3	Corrales	8 715	12	1,38
4	Rio Rancho	99 359	189	1,90
5	Raton	5 939	16	2,69
6	Taos	5 963	19	3,19
7	Edgewood	6 161	20	3,25
8	Alamogordo	31 832	109	3,42
9	Anthony	9 284	32	3,45
10	Truth or Consequences	5 791	20	3,45

Crime Score in All Cities in New Mexico of January 2025

If your city didn’t make our list, you could see our full list of New Mexico cities.

We can’t compare crime rates in small and large cities. That’s why ElitePersonalFinance made a detailed analysis and narrowed the results according to population segments:

Under 3,000 Residents
3,000 – 30,000 Residents
Over 30,000 Residents

(Other sites don’t include places with under 3,000 residents, but we included them.)

These are the results that we got:

Under 3,000 Residents

Rank:	City:	Population:	Total Number of Crimes:	Crime Score:
1	Taos Ski Valley	69	0	0,00
2	Hope	106	0	0,00
3	Tatum	823	0	0,00
4	Texico	1 078	0	0,00
5	Dexter	1 236	0	0,00
6	Mesilla	1 826	0	0,00
7	Eunice	2 997	1	0,33
8	Estancia	1 586	1	0,63
9	Clayton	2 691	3	1,11
10	Cloudcroft	700	1	1,43
11	Questa	1 753	3	1,71
12	Angel Fire	1 072	2	1,87
13	Capitan	1 417	3	2,12
14	Tularosa	2 988	7	2,34
15	Hurley	1 181	3	2,54
16	Moriarty	1 792	5	2,79
17	Santa Clara	1 765	5	2,83
18	Carrizozo	935	3	3,21
19	Magdalena	873	3	3,44
20	Logan	959	4	4,17
21	San Ysidro	199	1	5,03
22	Lordsburg	2 385	12	5,03
23	Jal	2 097	14	6,68
24	Santa Rosa	2 639	18	6,82
25	Ruidoso Downs	2 575	19	7,38
26	Springer	898	7	7,80
27	Bayard	2 137	20	9,36
28	Hatch	1 605	16	9,97
29	Cuba	756	11	14,55

3,000 – 30,000 Residents

Rank:	City:	Population:	Total Number of Crimes:	Crime Score:
1	Lovington	11 322	12	1,06
2	Milan	3 632	4	1,10
3	Corrales	8 715	12	1,38
4	Raton	5 939	16	2,69
5	Taos	5 963	19	3,19
6	Edgewood	6 161	20	3,25
7	Anthony	9 284	32	3,45
8	Truth or Consequences	5 791	20	3,45
9	Sunland Park	18 103	65	3,59
10	Ruidoso	7 826	31	3,96
11	Portales	11 675	55	4,71
12	Bosque Farms	3 809	18	4,73
13	Artesia	12 366	65	5,26
14	Grants	8 937	49	5,48
15	Peralta	3 586	22	6,13
16	Bernalillo	10 353	85	8,21
17	Deming	14 011	135	9,64
18	Los Lunas	15 929	205	12,87
19	Gallup	21 935	437	19,92
20	Belen	7 094	144	20,30

Over 30,000 Residents

Rank:	City:	Population:	Total Number of Crimes:	Crime Score:
1	Rio Rancho	99 359	189	1,90
2	Alamogordo	31 832	109	3,42
3	Las Cruces	103 520	514	4,97
4	Clovis	38 734	261	6,74
5	Roswell	47 533	404	8,50
6	Albuquerque	561 920	7 596	13,52

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