Black Hawk, CO has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 15625 per 100,000, 4339% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Black Hawk's UCR row covers a small municipal population (128). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to CO and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Black Hawk, CO is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 4339% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Black Hawk, CO shows violent crime at 15,625 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 181,250 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 4339% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 5426.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 15625.0 in 2024 (+187.9%). The highest observed value was 15625.0 in 2024 and the lowest 3937.0 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Small-count caution
Black Hawk reported 20 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 128. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Position in the state cohort
At 15625.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Black Hawk ranks 2 of 134 — above 132 of the 133 other Colorado cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +7915.6% against the cohort median of 194.9. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Black Hawk's 15625.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Glendale (2274.3), Garden City (2008.0), Pueblo (1424.1), Denver (993.0). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 93.5% of reported property offenses in Black Hawk, against a cohort median of 76.8%. The remainder is burglary (4) and motor vehicle theft (11). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 7.9% of the 252 Part I offenses reported in Black Hawk for 2024, against a median of 11.7% across comparable Colorado cities — a gap of 3.8 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Property counts dominate Black Hawk's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Based on 20 reported violent incidents in a population of 128. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Across 3.1 Census sq mi, Black Hawk logged 74.4 property and 6.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Black Hawk's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (86% of 252 offenses; mix index 7,472).
Violent offenses are only 8% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Black Hawk offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (3.1 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 232 | 181250 |
| Larceny-Theft | 217 | 169531.3 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 11 | 8593.8 |
| Burglary | 4 | 3125 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 20 | 15625 |
| Aggravated Assault | 14 | 10937.5 |
| Robbery | 5 | 3906.3 |
| Rape | 1 | 781.3 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 129 | 5426.4 | 116279.1 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 132 | 5303 | 245454.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 129 | 6201.6 | 241085.3 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 127 | 3937 | 188189 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 128 | 15625 | 181250 |
Black Hawk Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Black Hawk's 252 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Colorado cities closest to Black Hawk in population. Their populations run from 16 to 771, against 128 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Black Hawk sits at 15,625/100K violent (grade F); the Colorado cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Black Hawk reported 20 violent crimes and 232 property crimes, for a total of 252 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Black Hawk's violent crime rate increased by 296.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 3.7%.
The most common crime type in Black Hawk is larceny-theft, accounting for 86.1% of all reported crimes (217 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Black Hawk's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Black Hawk's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Black Hawk, CO rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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