The Crime Indices range from 1 (low crime) to 100 (high crime). Our crime rates are based on FBI data.
Violent crime is composed of four offenses: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault.
Property crime includes the offenses of burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson. The object of the theft-type offenses is the taking of money or property, but there is no force or threat of force against the victims.
| Cities with the Least Crime Near Portales, New Mexico | Crime Index |
| Causey, NM | 19.3 |
| Dora, NM | 24.3 |
| Floyd, NM | 24.4 |
| Elida, NM | 27.9 |
| Portales, NM | 36.7 |