Lone Tree, CO is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns a D PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 24% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Lone Tree, CO shows violent crime at 436 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 10,977.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 24% 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
436/100K violent
10977.7/100K property
+24% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Lone Tree, CO
Comparable rate records
Lone Tree's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Colorado cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Lone Tree's 436.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Northglenn (431.8), Avon (424.0), Monte Vista (448.8), Kremmling (421.3). 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
Lone Tree reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Colorado cities
At 436.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Lone Tree ranks 29 of 134 — above 105 of the 133 other Colorado cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +123.6% 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
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 3.8% of the 1,597 Part I offenses reported in Lone Tree for 2024, against a median of 11.7% across comparable Colorado cities — a gap of 7.9 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 90.2% of reported property offenses in Lone Tree, against a cohort median of 76.8%. The remainder is burglary (90) and motor vehicle theft (60). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 387.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 436.0 in 2024 (+12.5%). The highest observed value was 542.1 in 2022 and the lowest 361.0 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Lone Tree'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.
Lone Tree's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 9.8 Census sq mi, Lone Tree logged 156.6 property and 6.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Lone Tree's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (87% of 1,597 offenses; mix index 7,589).
Violent offenses are only 4% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (9.8 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
+20.8%
361 → 436/100K
Property Crime Rate
+5.2%
10433.9 → 10977.7/100K
Property offenses lead Lone Tree's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs CO
Property Crime
1,536
10977.7
1711
2640.7
Larceny-Theft
1,386
9905.7
-
-
Burglary
90
643.2
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
60
428.8
-
-
Arson
4
28.6
-
-
Violent Crime
61
436
352
481.2
Aggravated Assault
52
371.6
-
-
Robbery
8
57.2
-
-
Rape
1
7.1
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Lone Tree Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Lone Tree 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
Lone Tree Police Department
Reporting agency for Lone Tree NIBRS-participating
Lone Tree Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Lone Tree's 1,597 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 Lone Tree in population. Their populations run from 11,404 to 15,060, against 13,992 here. Or use our
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Lone Tree at 436/100K violent and 10,977.7/100K property - matched below outside Colorado (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Lone Tree reported 61 violent crimes and 1,536 property crimes, for a total of 1,597 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Lone Tree?
From 2023 to 2024, Lone Tree's violent crime rate increased by 20.8%, and the property crime rate increased by 5.2%.
What is the most common crime in Lone Tree?
The most common crime type in Lone Tree is larceny-theft, accounting for 86.8% of all reported crimes (1,386 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Lone Tree 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 Lone Tree, CO rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.