Loveland, CO has a C safety grade (51/100) with a violent crime rate of 315 per 100,000, 11% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Loveland, CO Crime Rate & Safety
At 80,374 residents, Loveland 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.
Loveland, CO carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 11% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Loveland, CO shows violent crime at 314.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,018.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 11% 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.
C safety grade
314.8/100K violent
2018.1/100K property
-11% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Loveland, CO
Comparable rate records
Loveland's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Colorado cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Loveland's 314.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Edgewater (309.8), Glenwood Springs (309.7), Boulder (322.3), Rangely (306.9). 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
Loveland sits mid-pack among comparable Colorado cities
At 314.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Loveland ranks 44 of 134 — above 90 of the 133 other Colorado cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +61.5% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 254.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 314.8 in 2024 (+23.9%). The highest observed value was 390.3 in 2023 and the lowest 254.0 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Loveland'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.
Loveland's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 35.8 Census sq mi, Loveland logged 45.3 property and 7.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Loveland's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (71% of 1,875 offenses; mix index 5,291).
Violent offenses are only 13% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (35.8 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
-19.3%
390.3 → 314.8/100K
Property Crime Rate
-15.9%
2400.3 → 2018.1/100K
Property offenses lead Loveland's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs CO
Property Crime
1,622
2018.1
2640.7
Larceny-Theft
1,337
1663.5
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
150
186.6
-
Burglary
135
168
-
Arson
12
14.9
-
Violent Crime
253
314.8
481.2
Aggravated Assault
165
205.3
-
Rape
61
75.9
-
Robbery
24
29.9
-
Murder
3
3.7
-
Loveland Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Loveland 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
Loveland Police Department
Reporting agency for Loveland NIBRS-participating
Loveland Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Loveland's 1,875 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
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In 2024, Loveland reported 253 violent crimes and 1,622 property crimes, for a total of 1,875 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Loveland?
From 2023 to 2024, Loveland's violent crime rate decreased by 19.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 15.9%.
What is the most common crime in Loveland?
The most common crime type in Loveland is larceny-theft, accounting for 71.3% of all reported crimes (1,337 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Loveland'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 Loveland, CO rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.