Charley's Automotive Service · Photo: Bill Eichelberger · CC BY-SA 4.0Reported crime per resident in Grants rose 154% from 2023 to 2025
Overall, Grants grades C for safety (#7 of 29 graded towns in New Mexico): more crime per resident than 69% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported to the FBI in 2023–2025.
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 Grants
Among New Mexico towns, closer to the middle
New Mexico’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Grants’ place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 76% of the 29 New Mexico towns we grade, against 31% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Reported crime is rising
Crime reported per resident rose 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 Grants’ 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; property crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its property rate (11.3) is below the FBI’s national estimate (17.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Reported crime is rising
Reported crime per resident rose from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of New Mexico.
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| Year | Grants property | Rest of New Mexico property | Grants violent | Rest of New Mexico violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5.2 | 38.8 | 2.8 | 9.8 |
| 2023 | 5.2 | 38.2 | 2.1 | 9.4 |
| 2024 | 16.2 | 36.5 | 4.2 | 8.7 |
| 2025 | 12.7 | 29.3 | 5.9 | 7.2 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
For every 1,000 residents, about 13 property crimes reported
And about 6 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
Grants’ police reported 109 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 4.1 per 1,000 residents a year, against 8.4 in the rest of New Mexico and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
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| Year | Grants | Rest of New Mexico | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2.8 | 9.8 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 2.1 | 9.4 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 4.2 | 8.7 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 5.9 | 7.2 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
164 crimes reported in 2025
52 violent and 112 property, as reported to the FBI by Grants’ police.
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total. 2025 figures come from FBI Crime Data Explorer, which publishes violent crime, homicides, robberies and property crime only.
12 people died in crashes on Grants’s roads in 2019–2023
Grants had 9 fatal crashes in five years, in which 12 people died; 2 were pedestrians. Most of these deaths (6 of 12) were on an Interstate passing through, so they say more about through-traffic than about the town’s own streets.
That is 26.8 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for New Mexico towns of 5,000–25,000 people (6.7, 35 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.
Grants and its neighbors
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grants | C | 4.1 | 11.3 |
| San Rafael | — | — | — |
| Milan | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. San Rafael is an unincorporated community (a census-designated place) with no police department of its own. Milan reported to the FBI for 2024 and 2025 but not 2023.
New Mexico towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grants | C | 4.1 | 11.3 |
| Corrales | A− | 1.5 | 3.7 |
| Bernalillo | C− | 5.1 | 15.0 |
| Bloomfield | C− | 6.2 | 13.4 |
| Portales | D | 6.3 | 20.2 |
| Belen | D− | 12.7 | 41.9 |
The five graded New Mexico towns closest to Grants’ population (8,933), 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 Grants. 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 Grants’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (8,850 in 2025); our figure for Grants is 8,933 (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 Grants
Is Grants, NM safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Grants reports more crime per resident than 69% of U.S. towns, a C Safety Grade and #7 of 29 in New Mexico. Its police reported 4.1 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 8.4 in the rest of New Mexico and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Grants?
4.1 violent and 11.3 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of New Mexico reports 8.4 and 34.6; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Is crime going up or down in Grants?
Reported crime per resident rose from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings.
Who polices Grants?
Grants’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Grants Police Department”. 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.