Crime in Colorado (2024)
Colorado agencies reported 182,536 offenses to the FBI in 2024: 28,198 violent crimes, 153,148 property crimes and 1,190 arsons, across 219 reporting agencies.
Per 100,000 residents
Against a 2024 population of 5,988,502 (Census estimates). A floor: Colorado agencies that did not report contribute nothing.
Offenses by category
| Offense | Offenses | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Murder & nonnegligent manslaughter | 266 | 0.1% |
| Rape | 3,445 | 1.9% |
| Robbery | 3,745 | 2.1% |
| Aggravated assault | 20,742 | 11.4% |
| Burglary | 20,548 | 11.3% |
| Larceny-theft | 103,523 | 56.7% |
| Motor vehicle theft | 29,077 | 15.9% |
| Arson | 1,190 | 0.7% |
By county
Counties with sufficient reporting coverage (59 of Colorado's counties).
- Adams County
- Alamosa County
- Arapahoe County
- Archuleta County
- Bent County
- Boulder County
- Broomfield County
- Chaffee County
- Clear Creek County
- Conejos County
- Crowley County
- Custer County
- Delta County
- Denver County
- Dolores County
- Douglas County
- Eagle County
- El Paso County
- Elbert County
- Fremont County
- Garfield County
- Gilpin County
- Grand County
- Gunnison County
- Hinsdale County
- Jackson County
- Jefferson County
- Kiowa County
- Kit Carson County
- La Plata County
- Lake County
- Larimer County
- Las Animas County
- Lincoln County
- Logan County
- Mesa County
- Mineral County
- Moffat County
- Montezuma County
- Montrose County
- Morgan County
- Otero County
- Ouray County
- Park County
- Phillips County
- Pitkin County
- Prowers County
- Pueblo County
- Rio Blanco County
- Rio Grande County
- Routt County
- Saguache County
- San Juan County
- San Miguel County
- Summit County
- Teller County
- Washington County
- Weld County
- Yuma County
Largest reporting agencies
| Agency | Violent | Property | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denver Police Department | 7,170 | 34,380 | 41,683 |
| Colorado Springs Police Department | 3,517 | 16,950 | 20,612 |
| Aurora Police Department | 3,771 | 12,349 | 16,210 |
| Lakewood Police Department | 1,227 | 7,939 | 9,196 |
| Pueblo Police Department | 1,578 | 5,476 | 7,110 |
| Thornton Police Department | 399 | 4,136 | 4,564 |
| Westminster Police Department | 347 | 4,047 | 4,427 |
| Greeley Police Department | 763 | 3,435 | 4,227 |
| Fort Collins Police Department | 465 | 3,675 | 4,164 |
| El Paso County Sheriff's Office | 600 | 2,810 | 3,441 |
| Arvada Police Department | 344 | 2,986 | 3,378 |
| Boulder Police Department | 339 | 2,875 | 3,246 |
| Longmont Police Department | 462 | 2,578 | 3,064 |
| Jefferson County Sheriff's Office | 430 | 2,356 | 2,823 |
| Douglas County Sheriff's Office | 426 | 2,239 | 2,682 |
How to read these numbers
Counts are offenses reported by law-enforcement agencies to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program for 2024(Return A master file, which incorporates the FBI's own NIBRS-to-SRS conversion for agencies that report incident-based data). Nothing here is estimated: an agency that did not report contributes nothing, so totals are floors, not universes.
County figures use headquarters-county assignment: an agency's offenses count in the county where it is headquartered. Sheriff and state-police activity can span county lines; a county's figure is best read as "offenses reported by agencies based here." Counties where reporting agencies cover less than half of the policed population get no page; between 50% and 80% the page carries a visible partial-coverage notice.
Rates per 100,000 residentsuse Census Population Estimates (PEP) for the same year as the crime data. They appear only where the population served by agencies headquartered in a county is within 10% of the population that lives there. Where a police force covers several counties — the NYPD polices five boroughs from its Manhattan headquarters — the two geographies disagree, and a rate would be wrong by several times over in both directions. Those counties show counts without a rate rather than a number that looks authoritative and isn't.
Because non-reporting agencies contribute nothing, every rate here is a floor: the true rate is at least this high. Rates are most comparable between places with similar reporting coverage, which each page states.
Violent crime = murder + rape + robbery + aggravated assault. Property crime = burglary + larceny-theft + motor vehicle theft. Arson is tracked separately (from the FBI's de-duplicated SRS/NIBRS arson data) and is excluded from the property composite, following FBI practice. Aggravated assault excludes simple assault.
These figures will not match the FBI's published national estimates(which impute for non-reporting agencies) or the 12-month quarterly trend windows elsewhere on this site — different universes, both documented.