2Monterrey

Monterrey, 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: 8,222 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	153	13.4	15.8
SESNSP counts investigation files opened by the state prosecutors (carpetas de investigación), not victims.
Femicide	2	0.2	0.6
Sexual offences
Rape	288	25.2	15.9
Sexual abuse	282	24.7	25.9
Sexual harassment and other sexual offences	371	32.5	21.8
Violence
Intentional assault	837	73.2	123.5
Domestic violence	3,224	282.1	210.6
Kidnapping	1	0.1	0.4
Robbery
Street robbery	377	33	29.6
Robbery on transport and of hauliers	48	4.2	11.9
Robbery in homes	57	5	3.1
Vehicle robbery (carjacking)	64	5.6	30.5
Robbery of businesses	145	12.7	21.4
Other robbery	51	4.5	21.1
Robbery of car parts, banks, livestock, machinery and other robbery with violence.
Extortion	219	19.2	8.3
Theft and burglary
Burglary	281	24.6	25.8
Vehicle theft	199	17.4	59.9
Theft of car parts	16	1.4	14.8
Theft from the person and on transport	161	14.1	22.5
Theft from businesses	242	21.2	30.9
Other theft	867	75.9	103.7
Theft from hauliers and banks, of livestock, machinery and other theft without violence.
Drugs
Drug dealing (small scale)	2,559	223.9	82.3
State-level drug offences (narcomenudeo); federal drug crimes are not in this file.
Damage and public order
Criminal damage	682	59.7	106.3
Threats	768	67.2	110
Home trespass	77	6.7	10.6
Other
Fraud	1,174	102.7	84.1

Source: SESNSP, updated 26 October 2026.

Recorded crime by type (2025)

Homicide	155
Sexual offences	941
Violence	4,062
Robbery	961
Theft and burglary	1,766
Drugs	2,559
Damage and public order	1,527
Other	1,174

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.