Littleton, CO has a C safety grade (57/100) with a violent crime rate of 213 per 100,000, 39% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Littleton (44,076 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
Littleton, CO is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 39% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Littleton, CO shows violent crime at 213.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,518.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 39% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Littleton's 213.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Hotchkiss (211.6), Parker (209.1), Lochbuie (202.8), Estes Park (224.2). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 155.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 213.3 in 2024 (+37.0%). The highest observed value was 254.3 in 2022 and the lowest 155.7 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 65.7% of reported property offenses in Littleton, against a cohort median of 76.9%. The remainder is burglary (154) and motor vehicle theft (227). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 7.8% of the 1,204 Part I offenses reported in Littleton for 2024, against a median of 11.7% across comparable Colorado cities — a gap of 3.9 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 213.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Littleton ranks 64 of 134 — above 70 of the 133 other Colorado cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +9.4% 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.
Property counts dominate Littleton'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 12.6 Census sq mi, Littleton logged 88 property and 7.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Littleton's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 1,204 offenses; mix index 4,208).
Violent offenses are only 8% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Littleton offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (12.6 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 | 1,110 | 2518.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 729 | 1654 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 227 | 515 |
| Burglary | 154 | 349.4 |
| Arson | 3 | 6.8 |
| Violent Crime | 94 | 213.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 44 | 99.8 |
| Rape | 34 | 77.1 |
| Robbery | 15 | 34 |
| Murder | 1 | 2.3 |
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 | 48,805 | 155.7 | 2577.6 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 46,466 | 161.4 | 3120.6 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 44,821 | 254.3 | 3295.3 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 44,345 | 212 | 2834.6 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 44,076 | 213.3 | 2518.4 |
Littleton Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Littleton's 1,204 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 Littleton in population. Their populations run from 28,037 to 43,231, against 44,076 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Littleton sits at 213.3/100K violent (grade C); the Colorado cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Littleton at 213.3/100K violent and 2,518.4/100K property - matched below outside Colorado (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
213.3/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,518.4/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+0.6% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Littleton reported 94 violent crimes and 1,110 property crimes, for a total of 1,204 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Littleton's violent crime rate increased by 0.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 11.2%.
The most common crime type in Littleton is larceny-theft, accounting for 60.5% of all reported crimes (729 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Littleton 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 Littleton's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Littleton, CO rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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