Kirtland Afb is an unincorporated community of 305 in Bernalillo County, about 6 miles southeast of downtown Albuquerque · Updated November 2026
Is Kirtland Afb, NM safe?
Yes. An overall CrimeGrade™ of A- means crime in Kirtland Afb is low. Most US neighborhoods have little crime too, so Kirtland Afb sits near the middle: 40% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime, and 60% in neighborhoods with less. Property crime grades better than violent crime here, A- against B+.
A-
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 780 of 1,000About as safe as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
40% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Kirtland Afb as a whole, and 60% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Kirtland Afb scores 780.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its crime with the people, homes and cars there, on one national scale, from green for the least crime to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy shopping center can show red while the homes beside it stay green.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Kirtland Afb, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out in Kirtland Afb
Aggravated assault stands out among A-graded cities. For the typical resident of an A-graded US city, the figure is 1.2 aggravated assaults a year per 1,000 residents; Kirtland Afb has 35.0.
Simple assault at more than triple the US rate. Kirtland Afb has 86.3 simple assaults a year per 1,000 residents, against 9.7 nationally.
Crime rates and types in Kirtland Afb
CrimeGrade™ estimates Kirtland Afb has about 315 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, more than triple the rate for the US as a whole and more than triple the rate for New Mexico.
Overall crime
Violent crime
Property crime
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. These figures include simple assaults and vandalism, which the FBI's violent and property crime rates leave out.
Assault is the most common crime in Kirtland Afb, about 39% of everything reported, and it also accounts for the largest share of what crime costs here.
Each CrimeGrade™ compares a crime with what it affects: people for assaults and robbery, homes for burglary, parked cars for vehicle theft. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
How Kirtland Afb compares with nearby cities
Kirtland Afb has less crime than 5 of its 10 nearest cities.
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Kirtland Afb about $34,926 a year per household, more than triple the US figure of $1,205.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost comes to about $6.3 million a year, or $20,680 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$460,000
$1,525
Rape
$110,000
$368
Robbery
$26,000
$85
Assault
$490,000
$1,624
Burglary
$85,000
$280
Theft
$89,000
$291
Vehicle theft
$150,000
$479
Arson
$9,300
$31
Vandalism
$140,000
$449
Total
$1.6 million
$5,132
How CrimeGrade™ works
A CrimeGrade™ shows how much crime an area has compared with the rest of the country, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most. Every neighborhood in the US is graded on the same scale, so a B in Kirtland Afb means the same as a B anywhere else.
CrimeGrade™ starts from the crimes people report to police and measures each kind of crime against what it affects: people for assaults, homes for burglaries, parked cars for car thefts.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
Published research on what crime costs victims and communities
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
Schools in Kirtland Afb, NM average a SchoolGrade of D+: 28% of students test proficient, against 28% projected for schools like them. Overall, they don't meet expectations. See schools in Kirtland Afb on SchoolGrade
