County crime profile · 2024 · very large county · property-led
At 519,572 residents, Adams County is a very large county in Colorado. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Data updated 2026-09-05
Adams County, CO reported 85 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Adams County, CO agencies reported 440 violent and 2,180 property offenses. That equals about 85 violent and 420 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 119.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 84.7 in 2024 (-29.0%). The highest observed value was 126.5 in 2021 and the lowest 72.0 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 50.8% of reported property offenses in Adams County, against a cohort median of 68.5%. The remainder is burglary (320) and motor vehicle theft (752). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 84.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Adams County ranks 19 of 45 — above 26 of the 44 other Colorado counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +11.6% against the cohort median of 75.9. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
On a very large county row, county figures aggregate every participating agency inside the county. Participation is voluntary. Per-100,000 rates use a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census county population, never a Table 10 field; unmatched counties stay count-only. A large county line encloses very different communities.
| Category | Count |
|---|---|
| Property Crime | 2,180 |
| Burglary | 320 |
| Larceny-Theft | 1,108 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 752 |
| Arson | 25 |
| Violent Crime | 440 |
| Murder | 6 |
| Rape | 53 |
| Robbery | 53 |
| Aggravated Assault | 328 |
Adams County's crime figures on this page originate from Adams County Sheriff's Office's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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.
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Colorado counties closest to Adams County in population. Their populations run from 330,758 to 655,070, against 519,572 here. Or launch the side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two jurisdictions directly.
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Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States (CIUS) Table 10.
FBI Table 10 supplies county offense counts but no resident population. Where this page shows a per-100,000 rate, the denominator is a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census Bureau county population; unmatched county rows remain count-only. Statewide comparisons draw on the state UCR program. Verify with FBI.gov UCR and Census.gov QuickFacts.
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