2Zacatlán

Zacatlán, Mexico: crime rate and Safety score

Safety 2 out of 10 High crime

2/10 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: 8,040 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	15	17.2	15.8
SESNSP counts investigation files opened by the state prosecutors (carpetas de investigación), not victims.
Femicide	0	0	0.6
Sexual offences
Rape	10	11.4	15.9
Sexual abuse	14	16	25.9
Sexual harassment and other sexual offences	44	50.4	21.8
Violence
Intentional assault	111	127.1	123.5
Domestic violence	184	210.6	210.6
Kidnapping	0	0	0.4
Robbery
Street robbery	15	17.2	29.6
Robbery on transport and of hauliers	5	5.7	11.9
Robbery in homes	4	4.6	3.1
Vehicle robbery (carjacking)	22	25.2	30.5
Robbery of businesses	7	8	21.4
Other robbery	4	4.6	21.1
Robbery of car parts, banks, livestock, machinery and other robbery with violence.
Extortion	2	2.3	8.3
Theft and burglary
Burglary	40	45.8	25.8
Vehicle theft	106	121.3	59.9
Theft of car parts	0	0	14.8
Theft from the person and on transport	12	13.7	22.5
Theft from businesses	9	10.3	30.9
Other theft	71	81.3	103.7
Theft from hauliers and banks, of livestock, machinery and other theft without violence.
Drugs
Drug dealing (small scale)	10	11.4	82.3
State-level drug offences (narcomenudeo); federal drug crimes are not in this file.
Damage and public order
Criminal damage	63	72.1	106.3
Threats	140	160.3	110
Home trespass	7	8	10.6
Other
Fraud	36	41.2	84.1

Source: SESNSP, updated 26 October 2026.

Recorded crime by type (2025)

Homicide	15
Sexual offences	68
Violence	295
Robbery	59
Theft and burglary	238
Drugs	10
Damage and public order	210
Other	36

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.