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.

7,862

Total Number of Hijackings in 2023

+3%

Percentage increase in hijackings in 2023 vs 2022

1%

Only 1% Of Hijackings occur in the Mexican States that border the United States

Key Findings

2023

  • In 2023 Mexico recorded 7,862 violent cargo truck hijackings, up 3% compared to 2022.
  • Overall, during 2023, Mexico’s northern border states accounted for less than 1% of the total number of hijackings, while the central Mexican states of Mexico State, Puebla, and Michoacan accounted for 86%.
  • In Puebla, the number of hijackings increased by 45% compared to 2022.
  • The border states with the highest incidence of hijacking are Nuevo Leon (49) and Baja California (12).
  • Two other hotspots to watch are Veracruz and Oaxaca where hijackings are up 58% and 26% compared to last year.
image of the rise of cargo hijackings in mexico

Hijacking Data

Mexico Cargo Hijacking Data full (XLS)

2023

  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
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
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
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