Craig, CO has a C safety grade (40/100) with a violent crime rate of 464 per 100,000, 32% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Craig is a small municipal reporter (9,052 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with CO and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Craig, CO is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 32% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Craig, CO shows violent crime at 464 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,590.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 32% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C 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 211.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 464.0 in 2024 (+119.2%). The highest observed value was 464.0 in 2024 and the lowest 190.8 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Craig's 464.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Cortez (460.5), Longmont (469.3), Brighton (471.9), Idaho Springs (476.8). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 464.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Craig ranks 26 of 134 — above 108 of the 133 other Colorado cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +138.0% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 22.6% of the 186 Part I offenses reported in Craig for 2024, against a median of 11.7% across comparable Colorado cities — a gap of 10.9 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
Larceny-theft is 66.7% of reported property offenses in Craig, against a cohort median of 76.9%. The remainder is burglary (38) and motor vehicle theft (10). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Craig'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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 5.1 Census sq mi, Craig logged 28.4 property and 8.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Craig leans on larceny-theft at 52% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,400.
Violent offenses are 23% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Craig offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (5.1 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 | 144 | 1590.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 96 | 1060.5 |
| Burglary | 38 | 419.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 10 | 110.5 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 42 | 464 |
| Aggravated Assault | 30 | 331.4 |
| Rape | 10 | 110.5 |
| Robbery | 2 | 22.1 |
| 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 | 8,975 | 211.7 | 2117 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 8,905 | 415.5 | 2223.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 8,910 | 190.8 | 1548.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 8,936 | 246.2 | 1264.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 9,052 | 464 | 1590.8 |
Craig Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Craig's 186 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 Craig in population. Their populations run from 8,176 to 9,984, against 9,052 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Craig sits at 464/100K violent (grade C); the Colorado cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Craig reported 42 violent crimes and 144 property crimes, for a total of 186 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Craig's violent crime rate increased by 88.5%, and the property crime rate increased by 25.8%.
The most common crime type in Craig is larceny-theft, accounting for 51.6% of all reported crimes (96 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Craig is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Craig's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Craig, CO rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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