Mayaguez is a community of 65,800 in Mayaguez Municipio and the main city of the Mayaguez metro area, home to 213,800 · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Mayaguez?
Violent crime is high in Mayaguez: a C+, with more violent crime than the neighborhoods where 84% of Americans live. Assaults make up 68% of it, most of them aggravated assaults, which involve a weapon or a serious injury.
C+
Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 529 of 1,000More violent crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
16% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Mayaguez as a whole, and 84% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Mayaguez scores 529.
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 Mayaguez, PR at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Mayaguez, 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 Mayaguez
Aggravated assault is a strength. Mayaguez grades C+ for violent crime, but aggravated assault grades A, better than in the neighborhoods where 59% of Americans live.
Simple assault runs low. Mayaguez has 0.66 simple assaults a year per 1,000 residents, a small fraction of the US rate of 9.7.
Where violent crime is lowest and highest in Mayaguez
Violent crime changes a lot from one part of Mayaguez to the next: 58% of residents live in areas graded A or B, while 20% live in areas graded D or F. Violent crime grades across Mayaguez run from A to F.
58%22%20%
A or B 58%C 22%D or F 20%
Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
1Lomas Verdes-Mayaguez, southeastClose to the rest of Mayaguez on most crimes.B680
2Urbanizacion Mayaguez Terrace, northClose to the rest of Mayaguez on most crimes.B-579
3La Salud, eastClose to the rest of Mayaguez on most crimes.C+531
4Villa del Oeste & Residencial Flamboyan Gdns, southwestClose to the rest of Mayaguez on most crimes.C+513
5Urbanizacion Quinto Centenario, Alturas de Mayaguez & Parcelas Mani, northwestClose to the rest of Mayaguez on most crimes.C+504
6Urbanizacion Sultana, Urbanizacion Rio Cristal & Barrio Colombia, southClose to the rest of Mayaguez on most crimes.C454
7Dulces Labios & Barrio Buena Vista, centralClose to the rest of Mayaguez on most crimes.F18
Neighborhood areas of Mayaguez, ranked by violent crime CrimeGrade™; beside each grade is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer). Each one combines several of the smaller areas on the map.
Violent crime rates and types in Mayaguez
CrimeGrade™ estimates Mayaguez has about 2.4 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 82% less than the US as a whole and close to Puerto Rico.
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 Mayaguez, about 68% 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.
Violent crime in Mayaguez and nearby cities
Mayaguez has the most violent crime of its 10 nearest cities.
Among the traits that tend to go with violent crime, one sets Mayaguez apart: it has 34% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally. Places like that tend to report more robbery, and it runs high here.
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 assault. 72% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D+ (24 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 72% of US city residents
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery.34% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 72% 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 violent crime costs Mayaguez
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Mayaguez about $152 million a year, or $2,304 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $23 million, or $349 per resident.
Billed cost of violent crime per resident, per year
How the cost breaks down
Pain and suffering are about 85% of that full cost.
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$19 million
$295
Rape
$620,000
$9
Robbery
$880,000
$13
Assault
$2.1 million
$32
Total
$23 million
$349
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.
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.
