1Culiacán

Culiacán, 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: 17,685 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	869	86.6	15.8
SESNSP counts investigation files opened by the state prosecutors (carpetas de investigación), not victims.
Femicide	39	3.9	0.6
Sexual offences
Rape	104	10.4	15.9
Sexual abuse	148	14.7	25.9
Sexual harassment and other sexual offences	142	14.2	21.8
Violence
Intentional assault	1,062	105.8	123.5
Domestic violence	2,292	228.4	210.6
Kidnapping	6	0.6	0.4
Robbery
Street robbery	3	0.3	29.6
Robbery on transport and of hauliers	4	0.4	11.9
Robbery in homes	3	0.3	3.1
Vehicle robbery (carjacking)	3,308	329.6	30.5
Robbery of businesses	1,367	136.2	21.4
Other robbery	324	32.3	21.1
Robbery of car parts, banks, livestock, machinery and other robbery with violence.
Extortion	21	2.1	8.3
Theft and burglary
Burglary	38	3.8	25.8
Vehicle theft	468	46.6	59.9
Theft of car parts	2	0.2	14.8
Theft from the person and on transport	2	0.2	22.5
Theft from businesses	374	37.3	30.9
Other theft	642	64	103.7
Theft from hauliers and banks, of livestock, machinery and other theft without violence.
Drugs
Drug dealing (small scale)	150	14.9	82.3
State-level drug offences (narcomenudeo); federal drug crimes are not in this file.
Damage and public order
Criminal damage	706	70.4	106.3
Threats	598	59.6	110
Home trespass	24	2.4	10.6
Other
Fraud	274	27.3	84.1

Source: SESNSP, updated 26 October 2026.

Recorded crime by type (2025)

Homicide	908
Sexual offences	394
Violence	3,360
Robbery	5,030
Theft and burglary	1,526
Drugs	150
Damage and public order	1,328
Other	274

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.