1Pénjamo

Pénjamo, Mexico: crime rate and Safety score

Safety 1 out of 10 High crime

1/10 in Mexico · 1/10 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: 10,610 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	70	45.2	15.8
SESNSP counts investigation files opened by the state prosecutors (carpetas de investigación), not victims.
Femicide	0	0	0.6
Sexual offences
Rape	15	9.7	15.9
Sexual abuse	17	11	25.9
Sexual harassment and other sexual offences	9	5.8	21.8
Violence
Intentional assault	355	229.1	123.5
Domestic violence	231	149.1	210.6
Kidnapping	0	0	0.4
Robbery
Street robbery	2	1.3	29.6
Robbery on transport and of hauliers	0	0	11.9
Robbery in homes	7	4.5	3.1
Vehicle robbery (carjacking)	48	31	30.5
Robbery of businesses	5	3.2	21.4
Other robbery	66	42.6	21.1
Robbery of car parts, banks, livestock, machinery and other robbery with violence.
Extortion	30	19.4	8.3
Theft and burglary
Burglary	34	21.9	25.8
Vehicle theft	31	20	59.9
Theft of car parts	0	0	14.8
Theft from the person and on transport	2	1.3	22.5
Theft from businesses	21	13.6	30.9
Other theft	148	95.5	103.7
Theft from hauliers and banks, of livestock, machinery and other theft without violence.
Drugs
Drug dealing (small scale)	191	123.3	82.3
State-level drug offences (narcomenudeo); federal drug crimes are not in this file.
Damage and public order
Criminal damage	231	149.1	106.3
Threats	326	210.4	110
Home trespass	13	8.4	10.6
Other
Fraud	74	47.8	84.1

Source: SESNSP, updated 26 October 2026.

Recorded crime by type (2025)

Homicide	70
Sexual offences	41
Violence	586
Robbery	158
Theft and burglary	236
Drugs	191
Damage and public order	570
Other	74

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.