Westminster, CO has a C safety grade (40/100) with a violent crime rate of 304 per 100,000, 14% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Westminster, CO Crime Rate & Safety
At 114,310 residents, Westminster 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.
Westminster, CO is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 14% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Westminster, CO shows violent crime at 303.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,540.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 14% 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
303.6/100K violent
3540.4/100K property
-14% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Westminster, CO
Comparable rate records
Westminster's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Colorado cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Westminster's 303.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Rifle (301.7), Rangely (306.9), Dillon (300.0), Glenwood Springs (309.7). 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
Westminster sits mid-pack among comparable Colorado cities
At 303.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Westminster ranks 48 of 134 — above 86 of the 133 other Colorado cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +55.7% 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 7.9% of the 4,394 Part I offenses reported in Westminster for 2024, against a median of 11.7% across comparable Colorado cities — a gap of 3.8 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 302.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 303.6 in 2024 (+0.3%). The highest observed value was 408.0 in 2021 and the lowest 302.8 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Westminster'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.
Westminster's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 31.6 Census sq mi, Westminster logged 128 property and 11 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Westminster's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (64% of 4,394 offenses; mix index 4,583).
Violent offenses are only 8% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (31.6 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-11.7%
344 → 303.6/100K
Property Crime Rate
-3.2%
3657.4 → 3540.4/100K
Property offenses lead Westminster's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
4,047
3540.4
1711
Larceny-Theft
2,820
2467
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
828
724.3
-
Burglary
399
349.1
-
Arson
33
28.9
-
Violent Crime
347
303.6
352
Aggravated Assault
200
175
-
Robbery
92
80.5
-
Rape
49
42.9
-
Murder
6
5.2
-
Westminster Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Westminster 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
Westminster Police Department
Reporting agency for Westminster NIBRS-participating
Westminster Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Westminster's 4,394 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 Westminster in population. Their populations run from 84,098 to 145,847, against 114,310 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Westminster reported 347 violent crimes and 4,047 property crimes, for a total of 4,394 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Westminster?
From 2023 to 2024, Westminster's violent crime rate decreased by 11.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 3.2%.
What is the most common crime in Westminster?
The most common crime type in Westminster is larceny-theft, accounting for 64.2% of all reported crimes (2,820 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Westminster'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 Westminster, CO rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.