Grand Junction, CO has a F safety grade (18/100) with a violent crime rate of 546 per 100,000, 55% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Grand Junction, CO Crime Rate & Safety
At 70,686 residents, Grand Junction 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.
Grand Junction, CO is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 55% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Grand Junction, CO shows violent crime at 546.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,170.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 55% 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.
F safety grade
546.1/100K violent
3170.4/100K property
+55% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Grand Junction, CO
Comparable rate records
Grand Junction's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Colorado cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Grand Junction's 546.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are La Junta (504.2), Pagosa Springs (601.8), Fountain (481.5), Wheat Ridge (480.8). 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
Grand Junction reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Colorado cities
At 546.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Grand Junction ranks 19 of 134 — above 115 of the 133 other Colorado cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +180.1% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 14.7% of the 2,627 Part I offenses reported in Grand Junction for 2024, against a median of 11.7% across comparable Colorado cities — a gap of 3.0 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 close to where it started
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 547.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 546.1 in 2024 (-0.2%). The highest observed value was 597.5 in 2021 and the lowest 505.5 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Grand Junction'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.
Grand Junction's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 40.8 Census sq mi, Grand Junction logged 55 property and 9.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Grand Junction's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (71% of 2,627 offenses; mix index 5,228).
Violent offenses are only 15% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (40.8 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+8%
505.5 → 546.1/100K
Property Crime Rate
-1.9%
3230.8 → 3170.4/100K
Property offenses lead Grand Junction's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
2,241
3170.4
1711
Larceny-Theft
1,855
2624.3
-
Burglary
227
321.1
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
159
224.9
-
Arson
40
56.6
-
Violent Crime
386
546.1
352
Aggravated Assault
290
410.3
-
Rape
59
83.5
-
Robbery
34
48.1
-
Murder
3
4.2
-
Grand Junction Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Grand Junction 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
Grand Junction Police Department
Reporting agency for Grand Junction NIBRS-participating
Grand Junction Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Grand Junction's 2,627 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 Grand Junction in population. Their populations run from 43,050 to 84,098, against 70,686 here. Or use our
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Grand Junction at 546.1/100K violent and 3,170.4/100K property - matched below outside Colorado (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Grand Junction reported 386 violent crimes and 2,241 property crimes, for a total of 2,627 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Grand Junction?
From 2023 to 2024, Grand Junction's violent crime rate increased by 8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 1.9%.
What is the most common crime in Grand Junction?
The most common crime type in Grand Junction is larceny-theft, accounting for 70.6% of all reported crimes (1,855 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Grand Junction'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 Grand Junction, CO rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.