Colorado Springs, CO has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 716 per 100,000, 103% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · very large city
Colorado Springs, CO Crime Rate & Safety
At 491,474 residents, Colorado Springs is a very large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against CO and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Colorado Springs, CO carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 103% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Colorado Springs, CO shows violent crime at 715.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,448.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 103% 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.
F safety grade
715.6/100K violent
3448.8/100K property
+103% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Colorado Springs, CO
Position in the state cohort
Colorado Springs reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Colorado cities
At 715.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Colorado Springs ranks 14 of 134 — above 120 of the 133 other Colorado cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +267.1% 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
Colorado Springs's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Colorado cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Colorado Springs's 715.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Greeley (670.7), Trinidad (770.5), Englewood (655.1), Lakewood (787.2). 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 613.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 715.6 in 2024 (+16.7%). The highest observed value was 715.6 in 2024 and the lowest 603.8 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 17.2% of the 20,467 Part I offenses reported in Colorado Springs for 2024, against a median of 11.7% across comparable Colorado cities — a gap of 5.5 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-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 64.6% of reported property offenses in Colorado Springs, against a cohort median of 76.9%. The remainder is burglary (2,604) and motor vehicle theft (3,399). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Colorado Springs'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 very large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Colorado Springs's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 202.1 Census sq mi, Colorado Springs logged 83.9 property and 17.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Colorado Springs leans on larceny-theft at 53% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,470.
Violent offenses are 17% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (202.1 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-7.7%
3735.3 → 3448.8/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+2.7%
696.6 → 715.6/100K
Property offenses lead Colorado Springs's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
16,950
3448.8
1711
Larceny-Theft
10,947
2227.4
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
3,399
691.6
-
Burglary
2,604
529.8
-
Arson
145
29.5
-
Violent Crime
3,517
715.6
352
Aggravated Assault
2,600
529
-
Rape
498
101.3
-
Robbery
381
77.5
-
Murder
38
7.7
-
Colorado Springs Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Colorado Springs property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Colorado Springs Police Department
Reporting agency for Colorado Springs NIBRS-participating
Colorado Springs Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Colorado Springs's 20,467 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.
Similar-Size Cities in Colorado
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Colorado cities closest to Colorado Springs in population. Their populations run from 113,757 to 722,031, against 491,474 here. Or use our
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How many crimes were reported in Colorado Springs?
In 2024, Colorado Springs reported 3,517 violent crimes and 16,950 property crimes, for a total of 20,467 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Colorado Springs?
From 2023 to 2024, Colorado Springs's violent crime rate increased by 2.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 7.7%.
What is the most common crime in Colorado Springs?
The most common crime type in Colorado Springs is larceny-theft, accounting for 53.5% of all reported crimes (10,947 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Colorado Springs'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 (very large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Colorado Springs, CO rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.