3Tehuacán

Tehuacán, Mexico: crime rate and Safety score

Safety 3 out of 10 Above average crime

3/10 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: 6,668 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	38	11.6	15.8
SESNSP counts investigation files opened by the state prosecutors (carpetas de investigación), not victims.
Femicide	1	0.3	0.6
Sexual offences
Rape	23	7	15.9
Sexual abuse	30	9.2	25.9
Sexual harassment and other sexual offences	91	27.8	21.8
Violence
Intentional assault	257	78.5	123.5
Domestic violence	594	181.5	210.6
Kidnapping	2	0.6	0.4
Robbery
Street robbery	205	62.6	29.6
Robbery on transport and of hauliers	88	26.9	11.9
Robbery in homes	10	3.1	3.1
Vehicle robbery (carjacking)	63	19.2	30.5
Robbery of businesses	88	26.9	21.4
Other robbery	32	9.8	21.1
Robbery of car parts, banks, livestock, machinery and other robbery with violence.
Extortion	7	2.1	8.3
Theft and burglary
Burglary	67	20.5	25.8
Vehicle theft	281	85.9	59.9
Theft of car parts	18	5.5	14.8
Theft from the person and on transport	167	51	22.5
Theft from businesses	114	34.8	30.9
Other theft	132	40.3	103.7
Theft from hauliers and banks, of livestock, machinery and other theft without violence.
Drugs
Drug dealing (small scale)	218	66.6	82.3
State-level drug offences (narcomenudeo); federal drug crimes are not in this file.
Damage and public order
Criminal damage	148	45.2	106.3
Threats	286	87.4	110
Home trespass	9	2.7	10.6
Other
Fraud	134	40.9	84.1

Source: SESNSP, updated 26 October 2026.

Recorded crime by type (2025)

Homicide	39
Sexual offences	144
Violence	853
Robbery	493
Theft and burglary	779
Drugs	218
Damage and public order	443
Other	134

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.