5Cananea

Cananea, Mexico: crime rate and Safety score

Safety 5 out of 10 Average crime

5/10 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: 4,086 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	2	5.1	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	6	15.2	25.9
Sexual harassment and other sexual offences	1	2.5	21.8
Violence
Intentional assault	20	50.7	123.5
Domestic violence	89	225.6	210.6
Kidnapping	0	0	0.4
Robbery
Street robbery	1	2.5	29.6
Robbery on transport and of hauliers	0	0	11.9
Robbery in homes	5	12.7	3.1
Vehicle robbery (carjacking)	1	2.5	30.5
Robbery of businesses	0	0	21.4
Other robbery	6	15.2	21.1
Robbery of car parts, banks, livestock, machinery and other robbery with violence.
Extortion	0	0	8.3
Theft and burglary
Burglary	1	2.5	25.8
Vehicle theft	8	20.3	59.9
Theft of car parts	0	0	14.8
Theft from the person and on transport	0	0	22.5
Theft from businesses	1	2.5	30.9
Other theft	5	12.7	103.7
Theft from hauliers and banks, of livestock, machinery and other theft without violence.
Drugs
Drug dealing (small scale)	7	17.7	82.3
State-level drug offences (narcomenudeo); federal drug crimes are not in this file.
Damage and public order
Criminal damage	16	40.6	106.3
Threats	14	35.5	110
Home trespass	1	2.5	10.6
Other
Fraud	3	7.6	84.1

Source: SESNSP, updated 26 October 2026.

Recorded crime by type (2025)

Homicide	2
Sexual offences	7
Violence	109
Robbery	13
Theft and burglary	15
Drugs	7
Damage and public order	31
Other	3

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.