What share of people in Chihuahua are neither poor nor vulnerable?

In 2024, 48.1% of the people of Chihuahua were neither poor nor vulnerable (4th highest of 32; Mexico 32.5%). 31.0% were not poor by income but lacked at least one social right, and 5.7% had adequate access to social rights but low incomes.

What share of people in Chihuahua have incomes below the poverty line?

20.9% of the people of Chihuahua had incomes below the poverty line in 2024 (6th lowest of 32; Mexico 35.4%), down from 38.4% in 2018, and 4.8% had incomes below the extreme poverty line, too little to buy the basic food basket (Mexico 9.3%).

How many people in Chihuahua lack social security?

30.9% of the people of Chihuahua lacked access to social security in 2024 (4th lowest of 32; Mexico 48.2%), down 6.5 percentage points since 2016.

What share of people in Chihuahua lack access to food?

9.9% of the people of Chihuahua lacked access to nutritious and quality food in 2024 (9th lowest of 32; Mexico 14.4%), against 13.5% in 2020. 9.8% had three or more social deprivations (Mexico 20.8%).

Poverty and living standards in Chihuahua, Mexico: official figures

In 2024, 15.1% of the people of Chihuahua were in multidimensional poverty, about 587,293 people (7th lowest of 32 federal entities; Mexico 29.6%). That is down 2.5 percentage points from 2022 and down 11.5 percentage points from 2018.

People in multidimensional poverty

15.1%

2024

Presumed homicides per 100,000 people

2025

How many people live in extreme poverty in Chihuahua?

2.2% of the people of Chihuahua lived in extreme poverty in 2024, about 86,925 people (14th lowest of 32; Mexico 5.3%), up 0.1 percentage points from 2022. Another 12.9% were in moderate poverty.

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How many homes in Chihuahua lack basic services?

In 2024, 3.5% of the people of Chihuahua lacked basic services in their homes such as piped water, drainage, electricity or a clean cooking fuel (7th lowest of 32; Mexico 14.1%), and 5.2% lived in housing of poor quality or overcrowded (Mexico 7.9%).

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What is the homicide rate in Chihuahua?

INEGI recorded 2,106 presumed homicides in Chihuahua in 2025 (preliminary), a rate of 53 per 100,000 inhabitants (6th highest of 32; Mexico 21). In 2024 there were 2,336 (61 per 100,000).

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Are homicides rising or falling in Chihuahua?

Since 2012 the homicide rate in Chihuahua was highest in 2020, at 92 per 100,000 (3,468 presumed homicides). It was 79 in 2012 and 53 in 2025.

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How many people are victims of crime in Chihuahua?

INEGI's victimisation survey (ENVIPE 2026) estimates that 23,395 of every 100,000 people aged 18 and over in Chihuahua were victims of a crime in 2025 (10th highest of 32; Mexico 23,473), against 20,601 in 2024. The rate was 23,288 for women and 23,515 for men.

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How many crimes go unreported in Chihuahua?

The ENVIPE survey estimates 1,114,961 crimes in Chihuahua in 2025, or 37,106 per 100,000 people aged 18 and over (5th highest of 32; Mexico 34,442). 94.0% of them were not reported or not investigated, the "cifra oculta" (10th highest of 32; Mexico 93.4%).

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Do people in Chihuahua feel safe?

Between February and April 2026, 74.2% of adults in Chihuahua said living in their state was unsafe because of crime (16th highest of 32; Mexico 74.0%), and 55.6% felt unsafe or very unsafe walking alone at night near their home (Mexico 56.4%).

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How Chihuahua compares with other states

People in multidimensional poverty (2024)

Chihuahua ranks 26 of 32, highest first. Mexico 29.6%

Rank	Region	People in multidimensional poverty
23	Aguascalientes	17.1%
24	Sinaloa	17.0%
25	Queretaro	16.3%
26	Chihuahua	15.1%
27	Colima	15.0%
28	Sonora	14.1%
29	Coahuila	12.4%

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People in extreme poverty (2024)

Chihuahua ranks 19 of 32, highest first. Mexico 5.3%

Rank	Region	People in extreme poverty
16	Yucatan	3.6%
17	Zacatecas	3.5%
18	Quintana Roo	2.6%
19	Chihuahua	2.2%
20	Mexico City	1.8%
21	Guanajuato	1.7%
22	Sonora	1.5%

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People with income below the poverty line (2024)

Chihuahua ranks 27 of 32, highest first. Mexico 35.4%

Rank	Region	People with income below the poverty line
24	Coahuila	22.3%
25	Quintana Roo	22.1%
26	Queretaro	21.1%
27	Chihuahua	20.9%
28	Colima	19.4%
29	Sonora	18.6%
30	Nuevo Leon	17.9%

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People without social security (2024)

Chihuahua ranks 29 of 32, highest first. Mexico 48.2%

Rank	Region	People without social security
26	Aguascalientes	32.8%
27	Baja California	32.0%
28	Sonora	31.4%
29	Chihuahua	30.9%
30	Baja California Sur	28.5%
31	Nuevo Leon	24.7%
32	Coahuila	23.4%

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People lacking access to nutritious food (2024)

Chihuahua ranks 24 of 32, highest first. Mexico 14.4%

Rank	Region	People lacking access to nutritious food
21	Zacatecas	11.3%
22	Colima	10.1%
23	Queretaro	9.9%
24	Chihuahua	9.9%
25	Mexico City	9.9%
26	Tamaulipas	9.7%
27	Baja California Sur	9.6%

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Presumed homicides per 100,000 people (2025)

Chihuahua ranks 6 of 32, highest first. Mexico 21; preliminary

Rank	Region	Presumed homicides per 100,000 people
3	Sinaloa	57
4	Baja California	55
5	Sonora	54
6	Chihuahua	53
7	Guanajuato	51
8	Guerrero	39
9	Tabasco	36

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Crime victims per 100,000 adults (ENVIPE) (2025)

Chihuahua ranks 10 of 32, highest first. Mexico 23,473

Rank	Region	Crime victims per 100,000 adults (ENVIPE)
7	Quintana Roo	24,494
8	Nuevo Leon	23,536
9	Tabasco	23,529
10	Chihuahua	23,395
11	Baja California	23,095
12	Hidalgo	22,982
13	Oaxaca	22,818

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Adults who say their state is unsafe (2026)

Chihuahua ranks 16 of 32, highest first. Mexico 74.0%; February-April 2026

Rank	Region	Adults who say their state is unsafe
13	Quintana Roo	76.1%
14	Tamaulipas	75.8%
15	Tlaxcala	75.3%
16	Chihuahua	74.2%
17	Mexico City	74.1%
18	Oaxaca	72.2%
19	Baja California	71.2%

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Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Geografia (INEGI): Defunciones por homicidio, reporte de resultados 28/26 (3 August 2026): Tabla 1 and Tabla 2, presumed homicides and rate per 100,000 by state of registration, 2012-2025 (2025 preliminary); Tabla 4, population by state on 30 June 2020-2025, read 23 October 2026 · saved copy (SHA-256 2575008d23fb…)
Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Geografia (INEGI): ENVIPE 2026 tabulados basicos, I. Nivel de victimizacion y delincuencia: cuadros 1.1 (victims per 100,000 by state and sex, 2025) and 1.12 (crimes per 100,000 by state of occurrence, 2025), read 23 October 2026 · saved copy (SHA-256 0a4b86a7fbf1…)
Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Geografia (INEGI): ENVIPE 2026 tabulados basicos, III. Denuncia del delito: cuadro 3.3, crimes by state and the share not reported or not investigated (cifra oculta), 2025, read 23 October 2026 · saved copy (SHA-256 d1d6efe5db3a…)
Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Geografia (INEGI): ENVIPE 2026 tabulados basicos, V. Percepcion sobre la seguridad publica: cuadros 5.13 (perceived safety in the state) and 5.21 (safety walking alone at night near home), February-April 2026, read 23 October 2026 · saved copy (SHA-256 354f0437fa98…)
Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Geografia (INEGI): Pobreza Multidimensional (PM) 2024: indicadores de pobreza segun entidad federativa, 2016-2024 (poverty, extreme poverty, vulnerability, social deprivations and income lines by state; CONEVAL methodology, ENIGH 2024), read 23 October 2026 · saved copy (SHA-256 8ea643bcb158…)

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