What share of people in Quintana Roo are neither poor nor vulnerable?

In 2024, 39.4% of the people of Quintana Roo were neither poor nor vulnerable (14th highest of 32; Mexico 32.5%). 38.5% were not poor by income but lacked at least one social right, and 4.4% had adequate access to social rights but low incomes.

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

22.1% of the people of Quintana Roo had incomes below the poverty line in 2024 (8th lowest of 32; Mexico 35.4%), down from 36.1% in 2018, and 4.4% had incomes below the extreme poverty line, too little to buy the basic food basket (Mexico 9.3%).

How many people in Quintana Roo lack social security?

39.5% of the people of Quintana Roo lacked access to social security in 2024 (13th lowest of 32; Mexico 48.2%), down 6.0 percentage points since 2016.

What share of people in Quintana Roo lack access to food?

13.1% of the people of Quintana Roo lacked access to nutritious and quality food in 2024 (16th lowest of 32; Mexico 14.4%), against 29.4% in 2020. 18.1% had three or more social deprivations (Mexico 20.8%).

Poverty and living standards in Quintana Roo, Mexico: official figures

In 2024, 17.7% of the people of Quintana Roo were in multidimensional poverty, about 339,835 people (11th lowest of 32 federal entities; Mexico 29.6%). That is down 9.2 percentage points from 2022 and down 12.4 percentage points from 2018.

People in multidimensional poverty

17.7%

2024

Presumed homicides per 100,000 people

2025

How many people live in extreme poverty in Quintana Roo?

2.6% of the people of Quintana Roo lived in extreme poverty in 2024, about 50,031 people (15th lowest of 32; Mexico 5.3%), down 1.5 percentage points from 2022. Another 15.1% were in moderate poverty.

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How many homes in Quintana Roo lack basic services?

In 2024, 12.0% of the people of Quintana Roo lacked basic services in their homes such as piped water, drainage, electricity or a clean cooking fuel (13th highest of 32; Mexico 14.1%), and 10.4% lived in housing of poor quality or overcrowded (Mexico 7.9%).

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What is the homicide rate in Quintana Roo?

INEGI recorded 536 presumed homicides in Quintana Roo in 2025 (preliminary), a rate of 28 per 100,000 inhabitants (11th highest of 32; Mexico 21). In 2024 there were 664 (35 per 100,000).

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Are homicides rising or falling in Quintana Roo?

Since 2012 the homicide rate in Quintana Roo was highest in 2018, at 48 per 100,000 (841 presumed homicides). It was 11 in 2012 and 28 in 2025.

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How many people are victims of crime in Quintana Roo?

INEGI's victimisation survey (ENVIPE 2026) estimates that 24,494 of every 100,000 people aged 18 and over in Quintana Roo were victims of a crime in 2025 (7th highest of 32; Mexico 23,473), against 25,599 in 2024. The rate was 23,586 for women and 25,452 for men.

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How many crimes go unreported in Quintana Roo?

The ENVIPE survey estimates 575,999 crimes in Quintana Roo in 2025, or 38,478 per 100,000 people aged 18 and over (4th highest of 32; Mexico 34,442). 94.6% of them were not reported or not investigated, the "cifra oculta" (5th highest of 32; Mexico 93.4%).

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Do people in Quintana Roo feel safe?

Between February and April 2026, 76.1% of adults in Quintana Roo said living in their state was unsafe because of crime (13th highest of 32; Mexico 74.0%), and 57.3% felt unsafe or very unsafe walking alone at night near their home (Mexico 56.4%).

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How Quintana Roo compares with other states

People in multidimensional poverty (2024)

Quintana Roo ranks 22 of 32, highest first. Mexico 29.6%

Rank	Region	People in multidimensional poverty
19	Tamaulipas	20.2%
20	Mexico City	19.7%
21	Jalisco	18.6%
22	Quintana Roo	17.7%
23	Aguascalientes	17.1%
24	Sinaloa	17.0%
25	Queretaro	16.3%

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People in extreme poverty (2024)

Quintana Roo ranks 18 of 32, highest first. Mexico 5.3%

Rank	Region	People in extreme poverty
15	State of Mexico	3.7%
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%

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People with income below the poverty line (2024)

Quintana Roo ranks 25 of 32, highest first. Mexico 35.4%

Rank	Region	People with income below the poverty line
22	Jalisco	24.1%
23	Sinaloa	23.3%
24	Coahuila	22.3%
25	Quintana Roo	22.1%
26	Queretaro	21.1%
27	Chihuahua	20.9%
28	Colima	19.4%

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People without social security (2024)

Quintana Roo ranks 20 of 32, highest first. Mexico 48.2%

Rank	Region	People without social security
17	Yucatan	42.3%
18	Durango	42.2%
19	Jalisco	40.3%
20	Quintana Roo	39.5%
21	Mexico City	38.0%
22	Tamaulipas	37.9%
23	Queretaro	37.4%

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People lacking access to nutritious food (2024)

Quintana Roo ranks 17 of 32, highest first. Mexico 14.4%

Rank	Region	People lacking access to nutritious food
14	Durango	14.5%
15	Sonora	14.2%
16	Veracruz	14.2%
17	Quintana Roo	13.1%
18	Nayarit	12.9%
19	Sinaloa	12.2%
20	San Luis Potosi	11.7%

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Presumed homicides per 100,000 people (2025)

Quintana Roo ranks 11 of 32, highest first. Mexico 21; preliminary

Rank	Region	Presumed homicides per 100,000 people
8	Guerrero	39
9	Tabasco	36
10	Michoacan	31
11	Quintana Roo	28
12	Baja California Sur	23
13	Oaxaca	18
14	Jalisco	16

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

Quintana Roo ranks 7 of 32, highest first. Mexico 23,473

Rank	Region	Crime victims per 100,000 adults (ENVIPE)
4	Tlaxcala	25,962
5	Queretaro	25,944
6	Aguascalientes	24,846
7	Quintana Roo	24,494
8	Nuevo Leon	23,536
9	Tabasco	23,529
10	Chihuahua	23,395

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Adults who say their state is unsafe (2026)

Quintana Roo ranks 13 of 32, highest first. Mexico 74.0%; February-April 2026

Rank	Region	Adults who say their state is unsafe
10	Colima	79.5%
11	Guerrero	79.4%
12	Jalisco	78.9%
13	Quintana Roo	76.1%
14	Tamaulipas	75.8%
15	Tlaxcala	75.3%
16	Chihuahua	74.2%

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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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