Photo: Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0Hobbs reports more crime per resident than 96% of U.S. towns
On crimes reported to the FBI by Hobbs’ police in 2023–2025, it grades D− for safety: #23 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 Hobbs
Among New Mexico towns, closer to the middle
New Mexico’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Hobbs’ place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 21% of the 29 New Mexico towns we grade, against 4% 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 Hobbs’ 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, 2022–2025, against the rest of New Mexico.
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| Year | Hobbs property | Rest of New Mexico property | Hobbs violent | Rest of New Mexico violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 48.3 | 38.2 | 9.5 | 9.8 |
| 2023 | 49.7 | 37.6 | 8.9 | 9.4 |
| 2024 | 37.5 | 36.3 | 7.9 | 8.7 |
| 2025 | 30.3 | 29.1 | 7.1 | 7.2 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Violent crime, by year and by type
Hobbs’ police reported 947 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 7.9 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 | Hobbs | Rest of New Mexico | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 9.5 | 9.8 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 8.9 | 9.4 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 7.9 | 8.7 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 7.1 | 7.2 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
For every 1,000 residents, about 30 property crimes reported
And about 7 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.
1,541 crimes reported in 2025
292 violent and 1,249 property, as reported to the FBI by Hobbs’ police.
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
10 people died in crashes on Hobbs’s roads in 2019–2023
Hobbs had 9 fatal crashes in five years, in which 10 people died; 3 were pedestrians.
That is 5.0 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.
Hobbs and its neighbors
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hobbs | D− | 7.9 | 39.0 |
| North Hobbs | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. North Hobbs is an unincorporated community (a census-designated place) with no police department of its own.
New Mexico towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hobbs | D− | 7.9 | 39.0 |
| 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 |
The five graded New Mexico towns closest to Hobbs’ population (40,863), 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 Hobbs. 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 Hobbs’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (41,168 in 2025); our figure for Hobbs is 40,863 (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 Hobbs
Is Hobbs, NM safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Hobbs reports more crime per resident than 96% of U.S. towns, a D− Safety Grade and #23 of 29 in New Mexico. Its police reported 7.9 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 Hobbs?
7.9 violent and 39.0 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of New Mexico reports 8.4 and 34.3; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Is crime going up or down in Hobbs?
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings.
How many homicides were there in Hobbs in 2025?
Hobbs’s police reported 4 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 9.7 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Who polices Hobbs?
Hobbs’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Hobbs”. 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.