Commerce City, CO has a F safety grade (5/100) with a violent crime rate of 791 per 100,000, 125% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Commerce City, CO Crime Rate & Safety
At 70,170 residents, Commerce City 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.
Commerce City, CO is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 125% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Commerce City, CO shows violent crime at 790.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,871.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 125% 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
790.9/100K violent
2871.6/100K property
+125% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Commerce City, CO
Position in the state cohort
Commerce City reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Colorado cities
At 790.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Commerce City ranks 11 of 134 — above 123 of the 133 other Colorado cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +305.8% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 500.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 790.9 in 2024 (+58.1%). The highest observed value was 790.9 in 2024 and the lowest 500.3 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
Commerce City's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Colorado cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Commerce City's 790.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Lakewood (787.2), Fairplay (810.8), Trinidad (770.5), Colorado Springs (715.6). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 21.6% of the 2,570 Part I offenses reported in Commerce City for 2024, against a median of 11.7% across comparable Colorado cities — a gap of 9.9 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 59.8% of reported property offenses in Commerce City, against a cohort median of 76.9%. The remainder is burglary (222) and motor vehicle theft (589). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Commerce City'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.
Commerce City's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 36.6 Census sq mi, Commerce City logged 55.1 property and 15.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Commerce City leans on larceny-theft at 47% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,053.
Violent offenses are 22% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (36.6 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
-3.4%
2971.2 → 2871.6/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+1.1%
782.6 → 790.9/100K
Property offenses lead Commerce City's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
2,015
2871.6
1711
Larceny-Theft
1,204
1715.8
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
589
839.4
-
Burglary
222
316.4
-
Arson
28
39.9
-
Violent Crime
555
790.9
352
Aggravated Assault
398
567.2
-
Robbery
79
112.6
-
Rape
72
102.6
-
Murder
6
8.6
-
Commerce City Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Commerce City property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Commerce City Police Department
Reporting agency for Commerce City NIBRS-participating
Commerce City Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Commerce City's 2,570 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 Commerce City in population. Their populations run from 43,050 to 84,098, against 70,170 here. Or use our
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Commerce City at 790.9/100K violent and 2,871.6/100K property - matched below outside Colorado (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Commerce City reported 555 violent crimes and 2,015 property crimes, for a total of 2,570 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Commerce City?
From 2023 to 2024, Commerce City's violent crime rate increased by 1.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 3.4%.
What is the most common crime in Commerce City?
The most common crime type in Commerce City is larceny-theft, accounting for 46.8% of all reported crimes (1,204 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Commerce City'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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Commerce City, CO rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.