Garden City, CO has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 2008 per 100,000, 470% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Garden City's UCR row covers a small municipal population (249). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to CO and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Garden City, CO is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 470% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Garden City, CO shows violent crime at 2,008 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 11,245 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 470% 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 743.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 2008.0 in 2024 (+170.1%). The highest observed value was 2008.0 in 2024 and the lowest 709.2 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Small-count caution
Garden City reported 5 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 249. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Position in the state cohort
At 2008.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Garden City ranks 4 of 134 — above 130 of the 133 other Colorado cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +930.1% 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 Garden City's 2008.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Glendale (2274.3), Pueblo (1424.1), Denver (993.0), Alamosa (979.2). 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 85.7% of reported property offenses in Garden City, against a cohort median of 76.8%. The remainder is burglary (1) and motor vehicle theft (3). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 15.2% of the 33 Part I offenses reported in Garden City for 2024, against a median of 11.7% across comparable Colorado cities — a gap of 3.5 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 Garden City'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.
Based on 5 reported violent incidents in a population of 249. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Across 0.1 Census sq mi, Garden City logged 247.8 property and 44.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Garden City's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (73% of 33 offenses; mix index 5,510).
Violent offenses are 15% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Garden City offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (0.1 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 | 28 | 11245 |
| Larceny-Theft | 24 | 9638.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 3 | 1204.8 |
| Burglary | 1 | 401.6 |
| Arson | 1 | 401.6 |
| Violent Crime | 5 | 2008 |
| Robbery | 3 | 1204.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 2 | 803.2 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 269 | 743.5 | 3345.7 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 282 | 709.2 | 7801.4 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 256 | 1562.5 | 15234.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 252 | 1587.3 | 6349.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 249 | 2008 | 11245 |
Garden City Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Garden City's 33 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 Garden City in population. Their populations run from 16 to 771, against 249 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Garden City sits at 2,008/100K violent (grade F); the Colorado cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Garden City reported 5 violent crimes and 28 property crimes, for a total of 33 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Garden City's violent crime rate increased by 26.5%, and the property crime rate increased by 77.1%.
The most common crime type in Garden City is larceny-theft, accounting for 72.7% of all reported crimes (24 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Garden City's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Garden City's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Garden City, CO rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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