Overview

• SESNSP recorded 18,407 homicide victims from January to September 2025, a 19.1% decrease year over year, with the period’s daily average the lowest since 2016 at 67.4.
• September 2025 averaged 59.5 intentional killings per day, 27 fewer than September 2024, reflecting the reported 32% annual decline.
• Security Minister Omar García Harfuch reported about 35,400 arrests, 17,200 firearms seized and 1,564 drug labs destroyed in the past year under the administration’s four-pillar strategy and an expanded National Guard.
• Violence remains concentrated, with 51% of January–September homicides in Guanajuato, Chihuahua, Baja California, Sinaloa, State of Mexico, Guerrero and Michoacán.
• Nuevo León reports a 53% year-to-date drop and an 84% decline in early October, while Sinaloa shows a 42% fall from its June spike yet totals 1,302 victims January–September and a sharp rise in child killings, according to Redim.