Mexico Cargo Hijacking Data Portal

Reliance Partner’s Mexico Cargo Hijacking Data Portal is a tool to help nearshoring executives, journalists, international logistics professionals and researchers analyze roadway logistics risk in Mexico. We compile, consolidate, and crunch data from Mexico’s federal government’s National Public Security System in order to provide the first and only open source data portal on cargo hijackings in Mexico.

5,121

Total number of hijackings tallied in Mexico in 2025.

1.3%

Percentage of hijackings that occurred in Mexico’s northern border states in 2025.

80%

Percentage of hijackings that occurred in Mexico State and Puebla in 2024.

Key Findings 2025

Mexico’s federal government recorded 5,121 violent cargo truck hijackings in 2025.
Only 1.3% of these incidents happened in Mexico’s northern border states.
In 2025, as in previous years, most incidents occurred in central Mexico in the area around Mexico City, with Estado de Mexico and Puebla recording the most incidents.

The map to the right shows Mexico’s Cargo Truck Hijacking Hotspots in 2025.

Reliance Mexico Cargo Truck Hijacking Data 2025

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Aguascalientes	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Baja California	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	3
Baja California Sur	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Campeche	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Chiapas	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Chihuahua	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	0
Ciudad de México	9	8	7	8	8	9	8	4	4	4	8	14
Coahuila	0	0	3	0	1	2	3	3	1	0	1	3
Colima	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Durango	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Guanajuato	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Guerrero	0	0	2	0	1	6	3	0	0	5	1	0
Hidalgo	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jalisco	0	0	2	1	1	0	2	1	1	3	3	1
México State	240	226	227	175	212	167	167	206	260	279	240	214
Michoacán	32	30	35	43	14	18	26	25	11	30	23	31
Morelos	6	1	3	3	4	2	4	3	2	0	4	0
Nayarit	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nuevo León	2	1	4	10	3	4	7	2	7	2	5	2
Oaxaca	4	6	3	6	6	6	6	11	10	13	7	4
Puebla	137	121	141	156	153	138	123	107	119	128	104	127
Querétaro	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Quintana Roo	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	1	3	0
San Luis Potosí	18	15	12	12	11	12	18	22	10	14	12	18
Sinaloa	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Sonora	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	2	0
Tabasco	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tamaulipas	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tlaxcala	5	5	4	5	5	4	0	3	1	10	9	7
Veracruz	4	4	3	4	7	7	7	2	7	4	2	7
Yucatán	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Zacatecas	0	0	2	1	0	0	1	2	1	1	0	0

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Aguascalientes	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Baja California	1	1	1	2	0	2	0	1	1	1	0	0
Baja California Sur	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Campeche	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Chiapas	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Chihuahua	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	1	1	0	1	2
Ciudad de México	0	0	0	2	1	0	16	5	4	17	6	16
Coahuila	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	5	1	1	4
Colima	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Durango	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Guanajuato	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Guerrero	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0
Hidalgo	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jalisco	15	15	18	17	19	13	0	0	0	2	0	2
México State	295	253	258	307	266	227	252	273	241	337	276	252
Michoacán	32	29	33	40	48	27	29	31	29	48	46	52
Morelos	16	15	11	17	13	5	9	5	5	3	6	6
Nayarit	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nuevo León	1	1	1	1	3	5	4	3	6	3	7	4
Oaxaca	5	4	6	10	8	5	6	4	7	17	6	6
Puebla	217	179	182	188	191	164	185	183	191	177	136	135
Querétaro	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Quintana Roo	0	1	I 0	1	1	1	2	1	1	0	1	0
San Luis Potosí	12	27	12	21	15	31	30	21	24	24	18	18
Sinaloa	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Sonora	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tabasco	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tamaulipas	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
Tlaxcala	13	7	7	6	5	13	12	5	9	5	8	10
Veracruz	4	4	5	4	3	2	7	1	6	7	4	6
Yucatán	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Zacatecas	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Aguascalientes	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Baja California	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	2	3	0
Baja California Sur	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Campeche	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Chiapas	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Chihuahua	0	0	1	1	2	0	1	1	2	0	1	1
Ciudad de México	5	5	10	5	4	4	1	13	8	5	2	4
Coahuila	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	0
Colima	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Durango	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Guanajuato	1	0	0	0	2	2	1	0	2	3	1	0
Guerrero	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hidalgo	4	2	1	0	4	1	0	0	4	0	2	1
Jalisco	36	27	28	20	18	21	18	20	7	8	24	16
México State	341	275	335	268	305	304	273	313	316	309	292	303
Michoacán	56	45	66	57	49	61	57	35	37	42	19	40
Morelos	17	9	8	13	17	9	6	9	8	12	5	8
Nayarit	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nuevo León	8	3	6	3	4	5	5	6	2	3	4	0
Oaxaca	15	13	28	11	12	23	10	8	12	11	8	12
Puebla	177	170	240	217	278	251	214	199	217	162	213	195
Querétaro	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Quintana Roo	1	0	2	4	1	2	0	0	2	2	1	1
San Luis Potosí	29	24	18	24	17	12	3	20	14	13	17	28
Sinaloa	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Sonora	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	1	0
Tabasco	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tamaulipas	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	6	12
Tlaxcala	8	6	5	6	3	2	5	13	11	8	6	12
Veracruz	7	6	7	4	11	10	6	10	4	10	7	11
Yucatán	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Zacatecas	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0