Centennial, CO has a B safety grade (68/100) with a violent crime rate of 173 per 100,000, 51% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 106,454 residents, Centennial is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against CO and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Centennial, CO is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 51% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Centennial, CO shows violent crime at 172.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,708.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 51% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Centennial's 172.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Basalt (174.5), Johnstown (177.5), Delta (184.0), Salida (184.3). 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 67.1% of reported property offenses in Centennial, against a cohort median of 76.9%. The remainder is burglary (300) and motor vehicle theft (299). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 158.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 172.8 in 2024 (+8.9%). The highest observed value was 268.3 in 2023 and the lowest 158.8 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 172.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Centennial ranks 74 of 134 — above 60 of the 133 other Colorado cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -14.8% against the cohort median of 202.8. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property counts dominate Centennial'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Across 30.2 Census sq mi, Centennial logged 60.3 property and 6.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Centennial's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 2,003 offenses; mix index 4,218).
Violent offenses are only 9% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Centennial offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (30.2 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 | 1,819 | 1708.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 1,220 | 1146 |
| Burglary | 300 | 281.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 299 | 280.9 |
| Arson | 23 | 21.6 |
| Violent Crime | 184 | 172.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 153 | 143.7 |
| Robbery | 22 | 20.7 |
| Rape | 9 | 8.5 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 112,104 | 158.8 | 1875 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 111,199 | 188.9 | 2059.4 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 105,849 | 239 | 2383.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 104,724 | 268.3 | 2043.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 106,454 | 172.8 | 1708.7 |
Centennial Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Centennial's 2,003 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 Centennial in population. Their populations run from 80,374 to 120,456, against 106,454 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Centennial sits at 172.8/100K violent (grade B); the Colorado cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Centennial at 172.8/100K violent and 1,708.7/100K property - matched below outside Colorado (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
172.8/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,708.7/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-35.6% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Centennial reported 184 violent crimes and 1,819 property crimes, for a total of 2,003 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Centennial's violent crime rate decreased by 35.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 16.4%.
The most common crime type in Centennial is larceny-theft, accounting for 60.9% of all reported crimes (1,220 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Centennial's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Large-city rate methodology for how Centennial's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Centennial, CO rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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