Laurelwood, Albuquerque, NM Violent Crime Rates and Maps
Laurelwood is a neighborhood of 2,390 residents in Albuquerque, about 4 miles west of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Laurelwood?
Laurelwood grades F for violent crime, with more of it than the neighborhoods where 95% of Americans live. Assaults make up 91% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. Albuquerque as a whole grades D- for violent crime.
F
Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 0 of 1,000More violent crime than nearly all US neighborhoodsi What this means
5% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Laurelwood as a whole, and 95% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Laurelwood scores 0.
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 violent crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its violent crime with the people who spend time there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy downtown or nightlife strip can show red while the homes around it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a solid connection. Compare high speed internet in Laurelwood, Albuquerque, NM at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Laurelwood in Albuquerque, 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 about violent crime in Laurelwood
Robberies happen at stores and businesses far more often than nationally. In Albuquerque as a whole, 64% of reported robberies happen at stores and businesses, against 33% nationally.
Violent crime rates and types in Laurelwood
CrimeGrade™ estimates Laurelwood has about 22 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 62% more than the US as a whole and 18% less than Albuquerque as a whole.
All violent crime
Assaults
Robbery
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Violent crime here includes simple assaults, which the FBI's violent crime rate leaves out.
Assault is the most common violent crime in Laurelwood, about 91% of the total.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a violent crime with the people who spend time in an area, not only the people who live there. 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 violent crime happens in Albuquerque
The Albuquerque Police Department polices Laurelwood; these figures cover Albuquerque as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Albuquerque as a whole, 56% of aggravated assaults happen at a home, against 53% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
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.
Violent crime in Laurelwood and nearby neighborhoods
Laurelwood has less violent crime than 5 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Laurelwood. Beside each violent crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Laurelwood has more violent crime than 84% of them.
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Laurelwood about $9.6 million a year, or $4,006 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $1.7 million, or $728 per resident.
Billed cost of violent crime per resident, per year
How CrimeGrade™ works
The violent crime CrimeGrade™ covers murder, rape, robbery and assault, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each violent crime against the people who spend time in an area, so a busy downtown is graded on its workers and visitors as well as its residents.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them. Laurelwood is the other kind of example: few people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks lower than its CrimeGrade™ suggests.
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.
