Crime & Safety in Silver City
Silver City's crime data reads genuinely favorably relative to national and New Mexico norms, per the sources reviewed this pass.
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Learn moreGenuinely favorable victim-odds data
NeighborhoodScout cites Silver City's violent-crime victim odds at 1-in-854 and property-crime victim odds at 1-in-196 -- meaningfully safer odds than many New Mexico markets in this project's dataset.
A real, disclosed data limitation
This record did not independently confirm a single combined crimes-per-1,000-residents figure or a statewide percentile ranking for Silver City this pass -- a real, disclosed gap.
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Key takeaways
- Silver City's violent-crime victim odds (1-in-854) read genuinely favorably per NeighborhoodScout.
- Property-crime victim odds ran 1-in-196, also genuinely favorable.
- A combined per-1,000 rate and statewide percentile were not independently confirmed this pass -- a real, disclosed gap.
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