Colorado's comparable FBI window (2014–2024, 11 years) shows increases on both major offense rates — read the lead series charts before the secondary rate.
Rising-window verdict
Colorado's violent crime rate rose 58.2% from 2014 to 2024; its property crime rate rose 4.9%. The endpoints agree on the broad direction, but the intervening years still matter.
Colorado's violent rate rose 12.6% (+48.9 per 100K) from 2019 to 2020 (387.1 → 436.0) — the sharpest comparable year-to-year step in this window. The largest move the other way was dropped 4.3% from 2018 to 2019 (404.7 → 387.1).
Colorado's violent gap vs the US aggregate moved from 16.3% below in 2014 to 36.7% above in 2024 (+53.0 pp).
Recent direction check
From 2021 to 2024, the violent-crime rate changed 0.5% and was nearly flat, compared with +58.2% across the full 2014-2024 window. That difference is why the latest few observations should be read separately from the decade-scale endpoints.
Peak and trough
The highest observed violent-crime rate was 507.8 in 2022; the lowest was 304.2 in 2014. The latest value lies 87% of the way from that low to that peak, which shows whether the endpoint is close to an extreme or near the middle of the observed range.
Full-window endpoints
Violent crime moved from 304.2 to 481.2 per 100,000 (+58.2%). Property crime moved from 2517.0 to 2640.7 (+4.9%). These are endpoint comparisons, not proof that every intervening year followed the same direction.
Latest national comparison
For 2024, the state rate was 481.2 per 100,000 versus 352.0 across the state records in this dataset, a gap of 36.7% above. This is a state-level benchmark, not a neighborhood-safety conclusion.
Year-to-year movement
The largest annual change ran from 2019 to 2020: +12.6%. Across the full sequence, 7 year-to-year steps rose by more than 1% and 3 fell by more than 1%. A single sharp step can reflect participation or reporting changes as well as a real change in recorded offenses.
Rate denominator
The reported population changed from 5,355,866 to 5,957,493 (+11.2%). Rates account for that denominator change; raw offense counts do not. This is one reason a count and a per-100,000 rate can move by different percentages over the same years.
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent | Rate | YoY | Property | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Comparable | 5,957,493 | 28,670 | 481.2 | ↓ 1.6% | 157,317 | 2640.7 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 5,877,610 | 28,729 | 488.8 | ↓ 3.7% | 173,373 | 2949.7 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 5,839,926 | 29,656 | 507.8 | ↑ 5.0% | 187,376 | 3208.5 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 5,812,069 | 28,121 | 483.8 | ↑ 11.0% | 184,138 | 3168.2 |
| 2020 | Comparable | 5,807,719 | 25,322 | 436 | ↑ 12.6% | 166,952 | 2874.7 |
| 2019 | Comparable | 5,758,736 | 22,290 | 387.1 | ↓ 4.3% | 150,380 | 2611.3 |
| 2018 | Comparable | 5,695,564 | 23,048 | 404.7 | ↑ 8.6% | 153,756 | 2699.6 |
| 2017 | Comparable | 5,607,154 | 20,884 | 372.5 | ↑ 9.2% | 150,903 | 2691.3 |
| 2016 | Comparable | 5,540,545 | 18,894 | 341 | ↑ 7.7% | 151,032 | 2725.9 |
| 2015 | Comparable | 5,456,574 | 17,280 | 316.7 | ↑ 4.1% | 142,737 | 2615.9 |
| 2014 | Comparable | 5,355,866 | 16,295 | 304.2 | - | 134,805 | 2517 |
More in Colorado: overview, safest cities, most dangerous, compare. Methodology — FBI UCR / Crime Data Explorer rates per 100,000 for Colorado (2014–2024); Census population where FBI denominators are missing.