Crime in Mexico

May 2025 Mexico Crime Report


map of crime rates - May 2025

INEGI statistically adjusted
SESNSP victims

  • 2.4
  • 10.2
  • 18.0
  • 25.8
  • 33.6
  • 41.5
  • 49.3
  • 57.1
  • 64.9
BCSBCSINSONNAYDGOGROMICHCOLJALZACCHIHMORMEXGTOAGSCOAHOAXPUECDMXQROSLPNLCHPSTLAXHGOVERTAMTABCAMPQROOYUCBAJA CALIFORNIA SUR annualized rate: 21.9 homicides: 17 population: 901,071 BAJA CALIFORNIA annualized rate: 38 homicides: 135 population: 4,121,794 SINALOA annualized rate: 60.9 homicides: 167 population: 3,183,914 SONORA annualized rate: 37.8 homicides: 102 population: 3,135,989 NAYARIT annualized rate: 18.4 homicides: 21 population: 1,321,844 DURANGO annualized rate: 3.6 homicides: 6 population: 1,924,969 GUERRERO annualized rate: 42.8 homicides: 133 population: 3,607,439 MICHOACÁN annualized rate: 31.1 homicides: 135 population: 5,037,417 COLIMA annualized rate: 72.7 homicides: 48 population: 766,336 JALISCO annualized rate: 15.8 homicides: 121 population: 8,889,812 ZACATECAS annualized rate: 11.5 homicides: 17 population: 1,710,530 CHIHUAHUA annualized rate: 40.6 homicides: 141 population: 4,035,516 MORELOS annualized rate: 52.6 homicides: 93 population: 2,054,116 MÉXICO annualized rate: 8.7 homicides: 132 population: 17,705,813 GUANAJUATO annualized rate: 31.3 homicides: 176 population: 6,528,508 AGUASCALIENTES annualized rate: 6 homicides: 8 population: 1,545,992 COAHUILA annualized rate: 2.4 homicides: 7 population: 3,393,451 OAXACA annualized rate: 20.6 homicides: 77 population: 4,334,304 PUEBLA annualized rate: 13.7 homicides: 83 population: 7,056,754 CIUDAD DE MÉXICO annualized rate: 8.5 homicides: 67 population: 9,187,251 QUERÉTARO annualized rate: 6.1 homicides: 14 population: 2,646,539 SAN LUIS POTOSÍ annualized rate: 6.6 homicides: 17 population: 2,975,848 NUEVO LEÓN annualized rate: 10.9 homicides: 60 population: 6,395,735 CHIAPAS annualized rate: 7 homicides: 37 population: 6,094,750 TLAXCALA annualized rate: 10.4 homicides: 13 population: 1,444,874 HIDALGO annualized rate: 7.1 homicides: 20 population: 3,294,023 VERACRUZ annualized rate: 10.6 homicides: 74 population: 8,122,532 TAMAULIPAS annualized rate: 5.3 homicides: 17 population: 3,743,389 TABASCO annualized rate: 33.9 homicides: 72 population: 2,466,577 CAMPECHE annualized rate: 13.3 homicides: 11 population: 957,945 QUINTANA ROO annualized rate: 15.5 homicides: 28 population: 2,094,958 YUCATÁN annualized rate: 2.8 homicides: 6 population: 2,508,514

INEGI statistically adjusted
SESNSP victims

You can click or hover over the map to show a state's crime information. The rates are per 100,000 people and calculated using 30 day months. Intentional homicides include feminicides. Oaxaca did not submit data during several months in 2015 and 2016.


Official Mexico Crime Data

Each month the Secretariado Ejecutivo del Sistema Nacional de Seguridad Pública publishes information on crimes known to the police across all of Mexico on its website in the form of pdf tables and Excel files. This website downloads, processes the data, merges it with population data, and presents it as easy to interpret crime rates.

Mexican crime data is available from police investigations (SESNSP) and also, in the case of homicides, from death certificates (INEGI). Crime data from the police is available in two ways: as the number of criminal investigations (which may concern more than one victim), and the number of victims of a crime. Crime by the number of victims is usually only available at the state level and I try to use this data whenever possible. In this website kidnappings, homicides, and extortions refer to victims; car robberies to police reports. Car robbery includes the crime of robo de coche de 4 ruedas only. Homicides include feminicides.

INEGI homicide data from death certificates tends to be more precise. Forensic coroners and the INEGI simply don't have the same incentives as the police to lower the number of homicides that happen in Mexico. In addition to homicide deaths, death certificates record deaths from legal interventions, operations of war, military operations, and terrorism, which I've added to the INEGI homicide counts. I also used a statistical model to predict the intent of deaths of unknown intent, similar to the one in this post post. The disadvantage of using the INEGI data is that it is usually more than a year out of date.

Intuitively, you can think of the statistical model as if someone were to ask you to guess the injury intent in the death of a 70-year-old Mérida woman whose cause of death was transport-related. You would probably say it was an accident. On the other hand, if you had to guess the type of death of a young adult male whose cause of death was a firearm, and the injury took place on a public street in Ciudad Juárez, you would probably guess it was a homicide.

The chart below shows INEGI homicides without any statistical adjustment since 1990


Homicides since 1990


Infographics

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Infographic of crime in Mexico
Infographic of crime in Mexico

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Crime map of Mexico

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Anomalies

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Anomalies

Trends


Homicide trends in Mexico

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Trends