Fountain, CO is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns a D PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 37% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Fountain, CO shows violent crime at 481.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,893.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 37% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
D safety grade
481.5/100K violent
1893.9/100K property
+37% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Fountain, CO
Comparable rate records
Fountain's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Colorado cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Fountain's 481.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Wheat Ridge (480.8), Idaho Springs (476.8), Brighton (471.9), Longmont (469.3). 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
Fountain reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Colorado cities
At 481.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Fountain ranks 21 of 134 — above 113 of the 133 other Colorado cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +147.0% 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 make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 20.3% of the 666 Part I offenses reported in Fountain for 2024, against a median of 11.7% across comparable Colorado cities — a gap of 8.6 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 418.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 481.5 in 2024 (+15.0%). The highest observed value was 496.0 in 2023 and the lowest 339.6 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Fountain'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.
Fountain's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 22.3 Census sq mi, Fountain logged 23.8 property and 6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Fountain leans on larceny-theft at 59% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,869.
Violent offenses are 20% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (22.3 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
-8.7%
2075.3 → 1893.9/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-2.9%
496 → 481.5/100K
Property offenses lead Fountain's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs CO
Property Crime
531
1893.9
2640.7
Larceny-Theft
392
1398.2
-
Burglary
71
253.2
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
68
242.5
-
Arson
4
14.3
-
Violent Crime
135
481.5
481.2
Aggravated Assault
83
296
-
Rape
30
107
-
Robbery
22
78.5
-
Murder
0
0
-
Fountain Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Fountain 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
Fountain Police Department
Reporting agency for Fountain NIBRS-participating
Fountain Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Fountain's 666 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 Fountain in population. Their populations run from 20,136 to 34,496, against 28,037 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Fountain reported 135 violent crimes and 531 property crimes, for a total of 666 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Fountain?
From 2023 to 2024, Fountain's violent crime rate decreased by 2.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 8.7%.
What is the most common crime in Fountain?
The most common crime type in Fountain is larceny-theft, accounting for 58.9% of all reported crimes (392 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Fountain 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Fountain, CO rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.