4Compostela

Compostela, Mexico: crime rate and Safety score

Safety 4 out of 10 Above average crime

4/10 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: 4,623 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	5	6.5	15.8
SESNSP counts investigation files opened by the state prosecutors (carpetas de investigación), not victims.
Femicide	2	2.6	0.6
Sexual offences
Rape	13	16.8	15.9
Sexual abuse	16	20.7	25.9
Sexual harassment and other sexual offences	9	11.6	21.8
Violence
Intentional assault	45	58.1	123.5
Domestic violence	114	147.2	210.6
Kidnapping	0	0	0.4
Robbery
Street robbery	0	0	29.6
Robbery on transport and of hauliers	0	0	11.9
Robbery in homes	4	5.2	3.1
Vehicle robbery (carjacking)	15	19.4	30.5
Robbery of businesses	2	2.6	21.4
Other robbery	5	6.5	21.1
Robbery of car parts, banks, livestock, machinery and other robbery with violence.
Extortion	2	2.6	8.3
Theft and burglary
Burglary	7	9	25.8
Vehicle theft	27	34.9	59.9
Theft of car parts	0	0	14.8
Theft from the person and on transport	0	0	22.5
Theft from businesses	5	6.5	30.9
Other theft	8	10.3	103.7
Theft from hauliers and banks, of livestock, machinery and other theft without violence.
Drugs
Drug dealing (small scale)	16	20.7	82.3
State-level drug offences (narcomenudeo); federal drug crimes are not in this file.
Damage and public order
Criminal damage	98	126.6	106.3
Threats	48	62	110
Home trespass	8	10.3	10.6
Other
Fraud	26	33.6	84.1

Source: SESNSP, updated 26 October 2026.

Recorded crime by type (2025)

Homicide	7
Sexual offences	38
Violence	159
Robbery	28
Theft and burglary	47
Drugs	16
Damage and public order	154
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.