Quarai · Photo: en:User:Nationalparks · CC BY-SA 2.5Punta de Agua goes ungraded: its recorded crime
Peralta, 27 miles away, is the nearest town with a Safety Grade (B−). Punta de Agua has no police department of its own: it’s an unincorporated community (a census-designated place) in Torrance County. The Torrance County Sheriff’s Office reports to the FBI for the parts of the county without police of their own, so there are no figures for Punta de Agua alone, and no Safety Grade.
What stands out about safety in Punta de Agua
Policed by the county
Punta de Agua is a census-designated place, with no town government. Crimes there are reported to the FBI inside the Torrance County Sheriff’s Office’s totals for the county. County police ↓
Counts, not rates
The FBI doesn’t publish how many people the Torrance County Sheriff’s Office covers, so its totals can’t be turned into a per-resident rate or a grade for Punta de Agua. County police ↓
The nearest graded towns
The closest New Mexico towns with their own police figures are Peralta (B−, 27 mi), Bosque Farms (B+, 29 mi), Belen (D−, 31 mi). Nearby towns can differ a lot from Punta de Agua. Nearest ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What the Torrance County Sheriff’s Office reports
Reports to the FBI for the parts of Torrance County without police of their own, which include Punta de Agua.
Property crimes
Violent crimes
2025 offenses reported by the Torrance County Sheriff’s Office
Counts, not rates: the FBI doesn’t publish how many people each agency covers. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, Tables 10–11.
Crimes reported to the FBI for the whole area the department covers, by year.
The nearest New Mexico towns with a Safety Grade
| Town | Grade | Distance | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peralta | B− | 27 mi | 2.6 | 8.2 |
| Bosque Farms | B+ | 29 mi | 0.9 | 6.8 |
| Belen | D− | 31 mi | 12.7 | 41.9 |
| Los Lunas | D | 32 mi | 5.6 | 26.4 |
| Edgewood | C | 37 mi | 3.2 | 15.0 |
| Albuquerque | D− | 40 mi | 11.7 | 44.3 |
Straight-line distance from the center of Punta de Agua. Nearby towns can differ a lot from Punta de Agua.
Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
No one died in a crash on Punta de Agua’s roads in 2019–2023
That is about what is typical for New Mexico towns of 2,500–5,000 people: at their median rate (7.8 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Punta de Agua’s size would see about 0 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Punta de Agua’s own rate (0.0) is context, not a ranking.
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.
Punta de Agua and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
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Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
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.
- A county agency covers a wide area. Its totals mix many communities, so they say little about any one of them.
- 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 Punta de Agua
Is Punta de Agua, NM safe?
There is no Safety Grade for Punta de Agua. The nearest New Mexico towns with a grade are Peralta (B−, 27 mi), Bosque Farms (B+, 29 mi), Belen (D−, 31 mi).
Who polices Punta de Agua?
The Torrance County Sheriff’s Office. Punta de Agua is an unincorporated community, and the department reports to the FBI for the parts of Torrance County without police of their own.
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Neighbors looking out for each other in Punta de Agua.
Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 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.