Englewood, CO has a F safety grade (5/100) with a violent crime rate of 655 per 100,000, 86% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Englewood (34,496 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then CO and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Englewood, CO is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 86% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Englewood, CO shows violent crime at 655.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 5,252.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 86% 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 270.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 655.1 in 2024 (+142.0%). The highest observed value was 819.1 in 2022 and the lowest 270.7 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 655.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Englewood ranks 16 of 134 — above 118 of the 133 other Colorado cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +236.1% 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
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Englewood's 655.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Greeley (670.7), Fraser/Winter Park (637.9), Pagosa Springs (601.8), 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 62.9% of reported property offenses in Englewood, against a cohort median of 76.9%. The remainder is burglary (233) and motor vehicle theft (440). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Englewood'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 6.6 Census sq mi, Englewood logged 276.2 property and 34.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Englewood leans on larceny-theft at 56% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,783.
Violent offenses are only 11% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Englewood offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (6.6 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 1,812 | 5252.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 1,139 | 3301.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 440 | 1275.5 |
| Burglary | 233 | 675.4 |
| Arson | 34 | 98.6 |
| Violent Crime | 226 | 655.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 147 | 426.1 |
| Rape | 40 | 116 |
| Robbery | 39 | 113.1 |
| 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 | 35,464 | 270.7 | 6042.7 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 35,630 | 693.2 | 6884.6 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 33,452 | 819.1 | 7258.2 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 33,653 | 656.7 | 5678.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 34,496 | 655.1 | 5252.8 |
Englewood Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Englewood's 2,038 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 Englewood in population. Their populations run from 28,037 to 44,076, against 34,496 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Englewood sits at 655.1/100K violent (grade F); the Colorado cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Englewood at 655.1/100K violent and 5,252.8/100K property - matched below outside Colorado (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
655.1/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
5,252.8/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-0.2% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Englewood reported 226 violent crimes and 1,812 property crimes, for a total of 2,038 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Englewood's violent crime rate decreased by 0.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 7.5%.
The most common crime type in Englewood is larceny-theft, accounting for 55.9% of all reported crimes (1,139 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Englewood figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Englewood's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Englewood, CO rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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