Photo: Foreverstocks · CC BY-SA 4.0Alamogordo reports more crime per resident than 85% of U.S. towns
On crimes reported to the FBI by Alamogordo’s police in 2023–2025, it grades C− for safety: #15 of 29 graded towns in New Mexico.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of NM” is every other New Mexico city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What stands out about safety in Alamogordo
Among New Mexico towns, closer to the middle
New Mexico’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Alamogordo’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 48% of the 29 New Mexico towns we grade, against 15% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Reported crime is falling
Crime reported per resident fell from 2023 to 2025 by more than ordinary year-to-year swings, on the grade’s own score. Trend ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Alamogordo’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are higher than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the closer of the two to typical.
Reported crime is falling
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2023–2025, against the rest of New Mexico.
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| Year | Alamogordo property | Rest of New Mexico property | Alamogordo violent | Rest of New Mexico violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 29.3 | 38.2 | 4.1 | 9.5 |
| 2024 | 28.5 | 36.6 | 3.3 | 8.8 |
| 2025 | 17.9 | 29.4 | 4.4 | 7.3 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
For every 1,000 residents, about 18 property crimes reported
And about 4 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
Violent crime, by year and by type
Alamogordo’s police reported 372 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 3.9 per 1,000 residents a year, against 8.5 in the rest of New Mexico and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
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| Year | Alamogordo | Rest of New Mexico | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 4.1 | 9.5 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 3.3 | 8.8 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 4.4 | 7.3 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
710 crimes reported in 2025
139 violent and 571 property, as reported to the FBI by Alamogordo’s police.
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
11 people died in crashes on Alamogordo’s roads in 2019–2023
Alamogordo had 10 fatal crashes in five years, in which 11 people died; 2 were pedestrians.
That is 7.0 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, below the median for New Mexico towns of 25,000–100,000 people (9.8, 8 towns).
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
Alamogordo and its neighbors
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alamogordo | C− | 3.9 | 25.2 |
| La Luz | — | — | — |
| Boles Acres | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. La Luz and Boles Acres are unincorporated communities (census-designated places) with no police department of their own.
New Mexico towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alamogordo | C− | 3.9 | 25.2 |
| Carlsbad | D | 5.5 | 26.9 |
| Los Lunas | D | 5.6 | 26.4 |
| Roswell | D | 8.1 | 25.7 |
| Farmington | D | 10.2 | 25.0 |
| Hobbs | D− | 7.9 | 39.0 |
The five graded New Mexico towns closest to Alamogordo’s population (31,906), by grade.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- One number for all of Alamogordo. A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Alamogordo’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (31,851 in 2025); our figure for Alamogordo is 31,906 (2025 Census estimate).
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in Alamogordo
Is Alamogordo, NM safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Alamogordo reports more crime per resident than 85% of U.S. towns, a C− Safety Grade and #15 of 29 in New Mexico. Its police reported 3.9 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 8.5 in the rest of New Mexico and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Alamogordo?
3.9 violent and 25.2 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of New Mexico reports 8.5 and 34.7; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Is crime going up or down in Alamogordo?
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings.
How many homicides were there in Alamogordo in 2025?
Alamogordo’s police reported 0 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 0.0 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Who polices Alamogordo?
Alamogordo’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Alamogordo”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.