County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Mesa County, CO
At 155,703 residents, Mesa County is a large county in Colorado. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Mesa County, CO reported 106 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Mesa County, CO agencies reported 165 violent and 886 property offenses. That equals about 106 violent and 569 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
2024 UCR year
165 violent offenses
106/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Mesa County, CO
Position in the state cohort
Mesa County sits mid-pack among comparable Colorado counties
At 106.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Mesa County ranks 14 of 45 — above 31 of the 44 other Colorado counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +39.7% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 124.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 106.0 in 2024 (-14.5%). The highest observed value was 144.5 in 2021 and the lowest 92.5 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
On a 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.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · large county
Category
Count
Property Crime
886
Burglary
143
Larceny-Theft
644
Motor Vehicle Theft
99
Arson
20
Violent Crime
165
Murder
1
Rape
33
Robbery
10
Aggravated Assault
121
Reporting Agency
Mesa County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Mesa County's crime figures on this page originate from Mesa 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.
Similar-Size Counties in Colorado
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Colorado counties closest to Mesa County in population. Their populations run from 31,196 to 61,685, against 155,703 here. Or launch the
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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.
County Table 10 totals are voluntary agency filings: incomplete coverage is not a county crime measure, and a countywide figure is not a neighbourhood verdict.