Sheridan, CO has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 924 per 100,000, 163% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Sheridan is a small municipal reporter (5,844 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with CO and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Sheridan, CO is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 163% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Sheridan, CO shows violent crime at 924 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 6,981.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 163% 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 924.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Sheridan ranks 9 of 134 — above 125 of the 133 other Colorado cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +374.0% 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
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 576.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 924.0 in 2024 (+60.3%). The highest observed value was 1169.7 in 2021 and the lowest 576.4 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Sheridan's 924.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Aurora (947.8), Alamosa (979.2), Denver (993.0), Fairplay (810.8). 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.
Property counts dominate Sheridan'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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 2.2 Census sq mi, Sheridan logged 183.4 property and 24.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Sheridan's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (65% of 462 offenses; mix index 4,621).
Violent offenses are only 12% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Sheridan offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2.2 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 | 408 | 6981.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 301 | 5150.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 66 | 1129.4 |
| Burglary | 41 | 701.6 |
| Arson | 1 | 17.1 |
| Violent Crime | 54 | 924 |
| Aggravated Assault | 44 | 752.9 |
| Robbery | 7 | 119.8 |
| Rape | 2 | 34.2 |
| Murder | 1 | 17.1 |
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 | 6,246 | 576.4 | 10262.6 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 6,070 | 1169.7 | 10115.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 5,964 | 905.4 | 10311.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 5,905 | 711.3 | 7315.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 5,844 | 924 | 6981.5 |
Sheridan Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Sheridan's 462 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 Sheridan in population. Their populations run from 5,113 to 6,679, against 5,844 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Sheridan sits at 924/100K violent (grade F); the Colorado cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Sheridan reported 54 violent crimes and 408 property crimes, for a total of 462 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Sheridan's violent crime rate increased by 29.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 4.6%.
The most common crime type in Sheridan is larceny-theft, accounting for 65.2% of all reported crimes (301 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Sheridan is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Sheridan's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Sheridan, CO rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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