5Carmen

Carmen, Mexico: crime rate and Safety score

Safety 5 out of 10 Average crime

5/10 in Mexico · 2/10 in the world

Compared with 2459 places in the same country (10 = lowest crime). 10 places were left out of the comparison (incomplete figures or very few residents).

Weighted crime: 3,996 per 100,000 people (2025)

Crime by type, as recorded by SESNSP (2025)

Type	Count	Per 100,000 a year	All places this source covers
Homicide
Intentional homicide	26	10.4	15.8
SESNSP counts investigation files opened by the state prosecutors (carpetas de investigación), not victims.
Femicide	5	2	0.6
Sexual offences
Rape	89	35.8	15.9
Sexual abuse	72	28.9	25.9
Sexual harassment and other sexual offences	37	14.9	21.8
Violence
Intentional assault	87	35	123.5
Domestic violence	73	29.3	210.6
Kidnapping	0	0	0.4
Robbery
Street robbery	12	4.8	29.6
Robbery on transport and of hauliers	0	0	11.9
Robbery in homes	5	2	3.1
Vehicle robbery (carjacking)	3	1.2	30.5
Robbery of businesses	31	12.5	21.4
Other robbery	13	5.2	21.1
Robbery of car parts, banks, livestock, machinery and other robbery with violence.
Extortion	5	2	8.3
Theft and burglary
Burglary	30	12.1	25.8
Vehicle theft	7	2.8	59.9
Theft of car parts	8	3.2	14.8
Theft from the person and on transport	0	0	22.5
Theft from businesses	51	20.5	30.9
Other theft	32	12.9	103.7
Theft from hauliers and banks, of livestock, machinery and other theft without violence.
Drugs
Drug dealing (small scale)	95	38.2	82.3
State-level drug offences (narcomenudeo); federal drug crimes are not in this file.
Damage and public order
Criminal damage	149	59.9	106.3
Threats	97	39	110
Home trespass	24	9.6	10.6
Other
Fraud	16	6.4	84.1

Source: SESNSP, updated 26 October 2026.

Recorded crime by type (2025)

Homicide	31
Sexual offences	198
Violence	160
Robbery	69
Theft and burglary	128
Drugs	95
Damage and public order	270
Other	16

Source: Secretariado Ejecutivo del Sistema Nacional de Seguridad Pública (SESNSP), incidencia delictiva del fuero común municipal, datos.gob.mx, CC BY 4.0; Fuente: INEGI, Marco Geoestadístico and Censo de Población y Vivienda 2020, updated 26 October 2026.