The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Paradise Hills, NM
Paradise Hills is a city of 32,200 in Bernalillo County, about 8 miles northwest of downtown Albuquerque · Updated November 2026
Is Paradise Hills, NM safe?
With an overall CrimeGrade™ of B-, Paradise Hills has moderate crime by national standards. Most US neighborhoods have less: 79% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime. Violent crime grades B- and property crime C+. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Paradise Hills run from A- to C-, so check the map below.
B-
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 558 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
21% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Paradise Hills as a whole, and 79% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Paradise Hills scores 558.
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. The interactive maps load faster on a strong connection. Compare high speed internet in Paradise Hills, NM at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Paradise Hills, 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 Paradise Hills
Robberies happen at stores and businesses far more often than nationally. In Paradise Hills, 64% of reported robberies happen at stores and businesses, against 33% nationally.
Vehicle theft at about double the US rate. Paradise Hills has 5.1 car thefts a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 nationally.
The safest and least safe parts of Paradise Hills
Areas graded C are home to 70% of residents in Paradise Hills; 30% live in areas graded A or B and 0% in areas graded D or F. Grades across Paradise Hills run from A- to C-; every part of Paradise Hills has more crime than the typical US neighborhood.
30%70%
A or B 30%C 70%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Within Paradise Hills, the southwest side has the least crime and the southeast side the most.
Crime rates and types in Paradise Hills
CrimeGrade™ estimates Paradise Hills has about 40 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 8% more than the US as a whole and 36% less than 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.
The largest share of crime reported in Paradise Hills is assault, about 30% of the total. It also makes up 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.
Where and when crime happens in Paradise Hills
The Albuquerque Police Department polices Paradise Hills; these figures cover Albuquerque as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Albuquerque as a whole, 51% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often at homes: 51% of them, against 34% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (51%)
Night (midnight to 6 am)
Car theft
Homes (62%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Homes (51%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (50%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (64%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (56%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
How Paradise Hills compares with nearby cities
Paradise Hills has more crime than 4 of its 7 nearest cities. Corrales and Bernalillo have the least crime nearby.
Empty homes, shops and walkability in Paradise Hills
Two things set Paradise Hills apart: it has 0.7% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally, and 4.4 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally. Places like that tend to report less burglary, vandalism and arson, yet burglary and vandalism run higher here than that would suggest.
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.0.7% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 99% of US city residents
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft.4.4 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Lower than for 94% of US city residents
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more theft and assault. 94% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D- (9 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 80% of US city residents
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JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.17 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 91% of US city residents
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.0.7 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Lower than for 85% of US city residents
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.26% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 64% of US city residents
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What crime costs Paradise Hills
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Paradise Hills about $1,462 a year per household, 21% more than 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 $61 million a year, or $1,908 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$4.3 million
$135
Rape
$550,000
$17
Robbery
$690,000
$22
Assault
$5.2 million
$161
Burglary
$760,000
$24
Theft
$1.7 million
$53
Vehicle theft
$2.5 million
$78
Arson
$30,000
$1
Vandalism
$2.0 million
$63
Total
$18 million
$553
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 Paradise Hills 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 Paradise Hills, NM average a SchoolGrade of A: 41% of students test proficient, against 35% projected for schools like them. Overall, they exceed expectations. See schools in Paradise Hills on SchoolGrade
