Evans, CO has a C safety grade (49/100) with a violent crime rate of 372 per 100,000, 6% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Evans (22,341 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
Evans, CO is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 6% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Evans, CO shows violent crime at 371.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,553.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 6% 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 213.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 371.5 in 2024 (+73.8%). The highest observed value was 517.7 in 2023 and the lowest 213.8 in 2020. 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 Evans's 371.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Florence (387.7), Gunnison (391.5), Greenwood Village (391.8), South Fork (396.0). 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 371.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Evans ranks 40 of 134 — above 94 of the 133 other Colorado cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +90.6% 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 19.3% of the 430 Part I offenses reported in Evans for 2024, against a median of 11.7% across comparable Colorado cities — a gap of 7.6 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 counts dominate Evans'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 10.6 Census sq mi, Evans logged 32.6 property and 7.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Evans leans on larceny-theft at 56% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,781.
Violent offenses are 19% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Evans offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (10.6 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 | 347 | 1553.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 242 | 1083.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 75 | 335.7 |
| Burglary | 30 | 134.3 |
| Arson | 4 | 17.9 |
| Violent Crime | 83 | 371.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 68 | 304.4 |
| Rape | 13 | 58.2 |
| Robbery | 2 | 9 |
| 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 | 21,515 | 213.8 | 2017.2 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 23,698 | 219.4 | 2067.7 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 22,333 | 291 | 2735.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 22,791 | 517.7 | 1956.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 22,341 | 371.5 | 1553.2 |
Evans Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Evans's 430 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 Evans in population. Their populations run from 15,060 to 28,037, against 22,341 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Evans sits at 371.5/100K violent (grade C); the Colorado cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Evans at 371.5/100K violent and 1,553.2/100K property - matched below outside Colorado (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
371.5/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,553.2/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Evans reported 83 violent crimes and 347 property crimes, for a total of 430 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Evans's violent crime rate decreased by 28.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 20.6%.
The most common crime type in Evans is larceny-theft, accounting for 56.3% of all reported crimes (242 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Evans 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 Evans's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Evans, CO rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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