6Taxco de Alarcón

Taxco de Alarcón, Mexico: crime rate and Safety score

Safety 6 out of 10 Average crime

6/10 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: 3,484 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	0	0	15.8
SESNSP counts investigation files opened by the state prosecutors (carpetas de investigación), not victims.
Femicide	1	0.9	0.6
Sexual offences
Rape	7	6.6	15.9
Sexual abuse	9	8.5	25.9
Sexual harassment and other sexual offences	11	10.4	21.8
Violence
Intentional assault	171	162	123.5
Domestic violence	53	50.2	210.6
Kidnapping	0	0	0.4
Robbery
Street robbery	0	0	29.6
Robbery on transport and of hauliers	0	0	11.9
Robbery in homes	1	0.9	3.1
Vehicle robbery (carjacking)	14	13.3	30.5
Robbery of businesses	0	0	21.4
Other robbery	22	20.8	21.1
Robbery of car parts, banks, livestock, machinery and other robbery with violence.
Extortion	6	5.7	8.3
Theft and burglary
Burglary	5	4.7	25.8
Vehicle theft	24	22.7	59.9
Theft of car parts	0	0	14.8
Theft from the person and on transport	0	0	22.5
Theft from businesses	5	4.7	30.9
Other theft	30	28.4	103.7
Theft from hauliers and banks, of livestock, machinery and other theft without violence.
Drugs
Drug dealing (small scale)	2	1.9	82.3
State-level drug offences (narcomenudeo); federal drug crimes are not in this file.
Damage and public order
Criminal damage	82	77.7	106.3
Threats	203	192.3	110
Home trespass	11	10.4	10.6
Other
Fraud	27	25.6	84.1

Source: SESNSP, updated 26 October 2026.

Recorded crime by type (2025)

Homicide	1
Sexual offences	27
Violence	224
Robbery	43
Theft and burglary	64
Drugs	2
Damage and public order	296
Other	27

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.