Perception of insecurity in Estado de México municipalities, INEGI survey September 2026, Digi Mart USA News (Estado de México, Mexico): The eight municipalities of the State of Mexico evaluated by INEGI recorded an annual decrease in the perception of insecurity as of September 2026, according to the state government. Tlalnepantla, Nezahualcóyotl and Naucalpan led the reported improvements.
According to the statement from the State of Mexico’s Mesa de Paz, six of the eight Mexiquense cities evaluated in the National Urban Public Security Survey (ENSU) recorded percentage reductions greater than the national average. Tlalnepantla de Baz led the list, with the share of residents perceiving insecurity falling from 80.3% in September 2025 to 59.3% in September 2026.
That change equals a relative reduction of 26.2%, based on figures released by the State of Mexico government. The first six municipalities exceeded the national relative reduction of 7.8% cited in the statement, while Chimalhuacán and Toluca showed smaller improvements.
The statement notes that these figures represent relative variations in the perception of insecurity, not reductions in crime incidence. Nationally, perception of insecurity stood at 58.1% of the adult population in September 2026, compared with 63.0% in September 2025, a difference of 4.9 percentage points.
The statement says this is the lowest level since the ENSU began 13 years ago. President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo highlighted the national result, while the Mexiquense government emphasized the declines observed in the eight state cities included in the survey.
The ENSU, produced by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), measures how the adult population perceives public security in the urban areas evaluated. Its results cover people aged 18 and older and various experiences and expectations related to safety.
The statement stresses that perception of insecurity differs from crime incidence: a drop in the share of people who consider their city unsafe does not necessarily mean crime fell by the same proportion. The data compare September 2025 with September 2026 and should not be read as a direct assessment of the effectiveness of any specific public policy.
Governor Delfina Gómez Álvarez welcomed the results and reiterated the importance of maintaining institutional coordination on public security. In a statement quoted in the official release, she said the results encourage continued coordinated work to ensure that residents of the State of Mexico feel increasingly safe.
The indicators were analyzed during session 207 of the Mesa de Paz, chaired by the governor, as part of follow-up on the State Security Strategy. Participants included Adrián Franco Barrios, vice president of INEGI’s Governing Board; Héctor Macedo García, president of the State Superior Court of Justice; and Horacio Duarte Olivares, secretary general of government.
Representatives of the State Attorney General’s Office, the State Security Secretariat, the National Defense Secretariat, the Navy, the National Guard and the National Intelligence Center also attended. The state government said it will continue monitoring security indicators and coordination among the three levels of government.
