Photo: Jeff Vincent · CC BY 2.0Truth or Consequences reports more crime per resident than 85% of U.S. towns
On crimes reported to the FBI by Truth or Consequences’ 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 Truth or Consequences
Among New Mexico towns, closer to the middle
New Mexico’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Truth or Consequences’ 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 Truth or Consequences’ 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.
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 | Truth or Consequences property | Rest of New Mexico property | Truth or Consequences violent | Rest of New Mexico violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 18.8 | 38.6 | 2.1 | 9.8 |
| 2023 | 17.2 | 38.1 | 7.2 | 9.4 |
| 2024 | 24.7 | 36.4 | 8.2 | 8.6 |
| 2025 | 14.5 | 29.2 | 1.9 | 7.2 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
For every 1,000 residents, about 15 property crimes reported
And about 2 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
Truth or Consequences’ police reported 103 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 5.8 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 | Truth or Consequences | Rest of New Mexico | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2.1 | 9.8 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 7.2 | 9.4 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 8.2 | 8.6 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.9 | 7.2 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
97 crimes reported in 2025
11 violent and 86 property, as reported to the FBI by Truth or Consequences’ police.
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
Three people died in crashes on Truth or Consequences’s roads in 2019–2023
Truth or Consequences had 3 fatal crashes in five years, in which three people died.
That is about what is typical for New Mexico towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (6.7 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Truth or Consequences’s size would see about 2 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Truth or Consequences’s own rate (10.0) 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.
Truth or Consequences and its neighbors
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Truth or Consequences | C− | 5.8 | 18.8 |
| Elephant Butte | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Elephant Butte has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025.
New Mexico towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Truth or Consequences | C− | 5.8 | 18.8 |
| Raton | C | 4.1 | 11.4 |
| Edgewood | C | 3.2 | 15.0 |
| Aztec | C− | 5.2 | 14.1 |
| Bloomfield | C− | 6.2 | 13.4 |
| Taos | D− | 8.8 | 49.7 |
The five graded New Mexico towns closest to Truth or Consequences’ population (5,949), 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 Truth or Consequences. 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 Truth or Consequences’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (5,917 in 2025); our figure for Truth or Consequences is 5,949 (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 Truth or Consequences
Is Truth or Consequences, NM safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Truth or Consequences 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 5.8 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 Truth or Consequences?
5.8 violent and 18.8 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of New Mexico reports 8.4 and 34.5; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Is crime going up or down in Truth or Consequences?
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings.
Who polices Truth or Consequences?
Truth or Consequences’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Truth or Consequences”. 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.