Overview

• Insurers reported 60,625 vehicles stolen from June 2024 to June 2025, marking a 2.2% nationwide decrease compared with the prior year
• Sinaloa accounted for 3,757 stolen cars over the same period, a 170% year-on-year rise linked to an internal feud after Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada’s July 2024 arrest
• Culiacán led all municipalities with 2,762 thefts as reports there climbed 202.9% from the previous year, making it Mexico’s most affected city
• Eighty-four percent of vehicle thefts in Sinaloa were carried out with violence, the highest rate recorded for insured car robberies in the country
• Theft of heavy transport units dipped 0.8% year-on-year even as insurers face annual payouts of about 6–7 billion pesos and recover only 57% of stolen equipment