County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Elbert County (26,062 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Colorado. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Elbert County, CO reported 65 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Elbert County, CO agencies reported 17 violent and 63 property offenses. That equals about 65 violent and 242 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
Small-count caution
Elbert County reported 17 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 26,062. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
2020–2024 direction
Across 3 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 46.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 65.2 in 2024 (+41.7%). The highest observed value was 65.2 in 2024 and the lowest 3.8 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 65.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Elbert County ranks 27 of 45 — above 18 of the 44 other Colorado counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -16.9% against the cohort median of 78.5. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 58.7% of reported property offenses in Elbert County, against a cohort median of 68.5%. The remainder is burglary (7) and motor vehicle theft (19). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 21.3% of the 80 Part I offenses reported in Elbert County for 2024, against a median of 17.5% across comparable Colorado counties — 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.
Mid-size county rows still aggregate voluntary UCR submissions. Per-100,000 rates need a matched 2020 Census population; unmatched stay count-only. County-wide totals rarely describe any single town inside the line.
| Category | Count |
|---|---|
| Property Crime | 63 |
| Burglary | 7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 37 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 19 |
| Arson | 2 |
| Violent Crime | 17 |
| Murder | 3 |
| Rape | 3 |
| Robbery | 0 |
| Aggravated Assault | 11 |
Elbert County's crime figures on this page originate from Elbert 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 Elbert County in population. Their populations run from 21,528 to 29,111, against 26,062 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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Put this to use
Use the Elbert County, CO FBI UCR county record to open cities inside the county, compare the state file, or look up another place.
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