5Sayula

Sayula, Mexico: crime rate and Safety score

Safety 5 out of 10 Average crime

5/10 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: 4,451 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	0	0	0.6
Sexual offences
Rape	0	0	15.9
Sexual abuse	13	35	25.9
Sexual harassment and other sexual offences	4	10.8	21.8
Violence
Intentional assault	40	107.6	123.5
Domestic violence	68	182.9	210.6
Kidnapping	0	0	0.4
Robbery
Street robbery	1	2.7	29.6
Robbery on transport and of hauliers	0	0	11.9
Robbery in homes	0	0	3.1
Vehicle robbery (carjacking)	3	8.1	30.5
Robbery of businesses	2	5.4	21.4
Other robbery	1	2.7	21.1
Robbery of car parts, banks, livestock, machinery and other robbery with violence.
Extortion	1	2.7	8.3
Theft and burglary
Burglary	15	40.3	25.8
Vehicle theft	11	29.6	59.9
Theft of car parts	0	0	14.8
Theft from the person and on transport	0	0	22.5
Theft from businesses	3	8.1	30.9
Other theft	25	67.2	103.7
Theft from hauliers and banks, of livestock, machinery and other theft without violence.
Drugs
Drug dealing (small scale)	0	0	82.3
State-level drug offences (narcomenudeo); federal drug crimes are not in this file.
Damage and public order
Criminal damage	8	21.5	106.3
Threats	27	72.6	110
Home trespass	2	5.4	10.6
Other
Fraud	26	69.9	84.1

Source: SESNSP, updated 26 October 2026.

Recorded crime by type (2025)

Homicide	0
Sexual offences	17
Violence	108
Robbery	8
Theft and burglary	54
Drugs	0
Damage and public order	37
Other	26

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.