Fort Collins, CO has a C safety grade (54/100) with a violent crime rate of 273 per 100,000, 23% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Fort Collins, CO Crime Rate & Safety
At 170,509 residents, Fort Collins 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.
Fort Collins, CO carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 23% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Fort Collins, CO shows violent crime at 272.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,155.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 23% below 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.
C safety grade
272.7/100K violent
2155.3/100K property
-23% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Fort Collins, CO
Comparable rate records
Fort Collins's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Colorado cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Fort Collins's 272.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Lafayette (272.6), Thornton (273.6), Vail (271.1), Fort Lupton (270.4). 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
Fort Collins sits mid-pack among comparable Colorado cities
At 272.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Fort Collins ranks 56 of 134 — above 78 of the 133 other Colorado cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +39.9% 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 262.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 272.7 in 2024 (+3.9%). The highest observed value was 327.9 in 2022 and the lowest 262.6 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Fort Collins'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.
Fort Collins's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 57.2 Census sq mi, Fort Collins logged 64.2 property and 8.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Fort Collins's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (72% of 4,140 offenses; mix index 5,383).
Violent offenses are only 11% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (57.2 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
-12.6%
2465.6 → 2155.3/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-8.8%
299 → 272.7/100K
Property offenses lead Fort Collins's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs CO
vs US avg
Property Crime
3,675
2155.3
2640.7
1711
Larceny-Theft
2,971
1742.4
-
-
Burglary
390
228.7
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
314
184.2
-
-
Arson
24
14.1
-
-
Violent Crime
465
272.7
481.2
352
Aggravated Assault
381
223.4
-
-
Robbery
42
24.6
-
-
Rape
39
22.9
-
-
Murder
3
1.8
-
-
Fort Collins Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Fort Collins 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
Fort Collins Police Department
Reporting agency for Fort Collins NIBRS-participating
Fort Collins Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Fort Collins's 4,140 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 Fort Collins in population. Their populations run from 105,195 to 155,868, against 170,509 here. Or use our
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Fort Collins at 272.7/100K violent and 2,155.3/100K property - matched below outside Colorado (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Fort Collins reported 465 violent crimes and 3,675 property crimes, for a total of 4,140 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Fort Collins?
From 2023 to 2024, Fort Collins's violent crime rate decreased by 8.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 12.6%.
What is the most common crime in Fort Collins?
The most common crime type in Fort Collins is larceny-theft, accounting for 71.8% of all reported crimes (2,971 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Fort Collins'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 Fort Collins, CO rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.