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

In 2024, 25.3% of the people of Morelos were neither poor nor vulnerable (11th lowest of 32; Mexico 32.5%). 33.4% were not poor by income but lacked at least one social right, and 5.9% had adequate access to social rights but low incomes.

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

41.3% of the people of Morelos had incomes below the poverty line in 2024 (9th highest of 32; Mexico 35.4%), down from 54.4% in 2018, and 8.8% had incomes below the extreme poverty line, too little to buy the basic food basket (Mexico 9.3%).

How many people in Morelos lack social security?

54.7% of the people of Morelos lacked access to social security in 2024 (10th highest of 32; Mexico 48.2%), down 7.2 percentage points since 2016.

What share of people in Morelos lack access to food?

16.9% of the people of Morelos lacked access to nutritious and quality food in 2024 (10th highest of 32; Mexico 14.4%), against 24.4% in 2020. 23.4% had three or more social deprivations (Mexico 20.8%).

Poverty and living standards in Morelos, Mexico: official figures

In 2024, 35.4% of the people of Morelos were in multidimensional poverty, about 697,233 people (9th highest of 32 federal entities; Mexico 29.6%). That is down 5.7 percentage points from 2022 and down 13.2 percentage points from 2018.

People in multidimensional poverty

35.4%

2024

Presumed homicides per 100,000 people

2025

How many people live in extreme poverty in Morelos?

4.9% of the people of Morelos lived in extreme poverty in 2024, about 96,401 people (11th highest of 32; Mexico 5.3%), down 1.0 percentage point from 2022. Another 30.5% were in moderate poverty.

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How many homes in Morelos lack basic services?

In 2024, 12.7% of the people of Morelos lacked basic services in their homes such as piped water, drainage, electricity or a clean cooking fuel (12th highest of 32; Mexico 14.1%), and 8.0% lived in housing of poor quality or overcrowded (Mexico 7.9%).

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What is the homicide rate in Morelos?

INEGI recorded 1,142 presumed homicides in Morelos in 2025 (preliminary), a rate of 58 per 100,000 inhabitants (2nd highest of 32; Mexico 21). In 2024 there were 1,535 (77 per 100,000).

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Are homicides rising or falling in Morelos?

Since 2012 the homicide rate in Morelos was highest in 2023, at 78 per 100,000 (1,557 presumed homicides). It was 36 in 2012 and 58 in 2025.

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How many people are victims of crime in Morelos?

INEGI's victimisation survey (ENVIPE 2026) estimates that 21,635 of every 100,000 people aged 18 and over in Morelos were victims of a crime in 2025 (15th lowest of 32; Mexico 23,473), against 23,812 in 2024. The rate was 20,206 for women and 23,291 for men.

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How many crimes go unreported in Morelos?

The ENVIPE survey estimates 528,859 crimes in Morelos in 2025, or 34,728 per 100,000 people aged 18 and over (9th highest of 32; Mexico 34,442). 92.4% of them were not reported or not investigated, the "cifra oculta" (11th lowest of 32; Mexico 93.4%).

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Do people in Morelos feel safe?

Between February and April 2026, 88.7% of adults in Morelos said living in their state was unsafe because of crime (2nd highest of 32; Mexico 74.0%), and 67.0% felt unsafe or very unsafe walking alone at night near their home (Mexico 56.4%).

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How Morelos compares with other states

People in multidimensional poverty (2024)

Morelos ranks 9 of 32, highest first. Mexico 29.6%

Rank	Region	People in multidimensional poverty
6	Tlaxcala	40.8%
7	Campeche	36.7%
8	Zacatecas	36.4%
9	Morelos	35.4%
10	Hidalgo	35.3%
11	Tabasco	34.8%
12	Michoacan	34.3%

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People in extreme poverty (2024)

Morelos ranks 11 of 32, highest first. Mexico 5.3%

Rank	Region	People in extreme poverty
8	Hidalgo	5.7%
9	Michoacan	5.4%
10	San Luis Potosi	5.1%
11	Morelos	4.9%
12	Tlaxcala	4.4%
13	Durango	4.3%
14	Nayarit	3.7%

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People with income below the poverty line (2024)

Morelos ranks 9 of 32, highest first. Mexico 35.4%

Rank	Region	People with income below the poverty line
6	Puebla	49.2%
7	Zacatecas	44.8%
8	Campeche	44.1%
9	Morelos	41.3%
10	Hidalgo	41.1%
11	Tabasco	39.3%
12	Michoacan	38.4%

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People without social security (2024)

Morelos ranks 10 of 32, highest first. Mexico 48.2%

Rank	Region	People without social security
7	Veracruz	60.2%
8	Tlaxcala	58.7%
9	Tabasco	54.8%
10	Morelos	54.7%
11	Zacatecas	52.9%
12	San Luis Potosi	51.2%
13	Campeche	51.2%

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People lacking access to nutritious food (2024)

Morelos ranks 10 of 32, highest first. Mexico 14.4%

Rank	Region	People lacking access to nutritious food
7	Puebla	17.0%
8	Campeche	16.9%
9	Guanajuato	16.9%
10	Morelos	16.9%
11	Hidalgo	16.4%
12	Yucatan	14.7%
13	State of Mexico	14.6%

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Presumed homicides per 100,000 people (2025)

Morelos ranks 2 of 32, highest first. Mexico 21; preliminary

Rank	Region	Presumed homicides per 100,000 people
1	Colima	89
2	Morelos	58
3	Sinaloa	57
4	Baja California	55
5	Sonora	54
6	Chihuahua	53
7	Guanajuato	51

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

Morelos ranks 18 of 32, highest first. Mexico 23,473

Rank	Region	Crime victims per 100,000 adults (ENVIPE)
15	San Luis Potosi	22,163
16	Jalisco	21,908
17	Guanajuato	21,824
18	Morelos	21,635
19	Sinaloa	20,015
20	Campeche	19,735
21	Baja California Sur	19,505

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Adults who say their state is unsafe (2026)

Morelos ranks 2 of 32, highest first. Mexico 74.0%; February-April 2026

Rank	Region	Adults who say their state is unsafe
1	State of Mexico	90.0%
2	Morelos	88.7%
3	Tabasco	87.6%
4	Guanajuato	85.9%
5	Zacatecas	83.3%
6	Puebla	82.4%
7	Michoacan	82.0%

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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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