Monthly Theft Incidents in Mexico by Municipality and Crime Type, 2015-2026

Monthly records of theft-related crimes reported across the 32 states of Mexico from January 2015 through the present. Sourced from the official open data portal of the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP), the data categorizes theft by type and by whether the crime involved violence. The dataset includes supplementary Python scripts for visualization.

Use Cases

• Analyze crime trends over time based on monthly records from 2015 onward.
• Study regional disparities in theft modalities based on state and municipality granularity.
• Evaluate public security policies based on reported incidents categorized by crime type and violence.
• Visualize the proportion of theft types by modality using the provided Python script.

Strengths

• Data spans from January 2015 through the present, providing a long-term time series.
• Includes granular location data for 32 states and their municipalities.
• Categorizes incidents by crime type and whether violence was involved.
• Includes supplementary Python scripts for generating normalized and trend analysis charts.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Official open data portal of the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP) of Mexico.

Collection Method

Sourced from the official open data portal.

Time Range

January 2015 through the present.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-19 01:19:53.

Geography

32 states of Mexico and their municipalities.