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Colorado Cities With The Highest Violent-Crime Pressure

Decision-support ranking comparing Colorado cities by current violent crime per 1,000 using the currently published coarse crime context, then routing readers into each city brief for tract context and caveats.

Cities ranked
229
Supported Colorado cities with tract-backed crime context.
Leaderboard

Current order from the latest data

Ranked rows are precomputed and served as static HTML from R2.

#PlaceMetric
1 Rollinsville
Violent Crime has increased 145% since 2021.
148.4 / 1k
2 Avondale
Violent Crime has increased 5% since 2021.
12.0 / 1k
3 Blende
Violent Crime has increased 5% since 2021.
12.0 / 1k
4 Jansen
Violent Crime has increased 5% since 2021.
12.0 / 1k
5 Las Animas
Violent Crime has increased 5% since 2021.
12.0 / 1k
6 Manzanola
Violent Crime has increased 5% since 2021.
12.0 / 1k
7 Pueblo West
Violent Crime has increased 5% since 2021.
12.0 / 1k
8 Sugar City
Violent Crime has increased 5% since 2021.
12.0 / 1k
9 Trinidad
Violent Crime has increased 15% since 2021.
10.1 / 1k
10 Denver
Violent Crime has increased 12% since 2022-01-11.
9.6 / 1k
11 Fairplay
Violent Crime has increased 94% since 2021.
9.5 / 1k
12 Hartsel
Violent Crime has increased 94% since 2021.
9.5 / 1k
13 Twin Lakes
Violent Crime has increased 94% since 2021.
9.5 / 1k
14 Colorado Springs
Violent Crime moved up by 9.1 / 1k from 0.0 / 1k in 2013-01-13 to 9.1 / 1k in 2026-05-13. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage.
8.9 / 1k
15 Alamosa
Violent Crime has increased 6% since 2021.
8.3 / 1k
16 San Acacio
Violent Crime has increased 6% since 2021.
8.3 / 1k
17 South Fork
Violent Crime has increased 6% since 2021.
8.3 / 1k
18 Brick Center
Violent Crime has declined 9% since 2021.
8.2 / 1k
19 Watkins
Violent Crime has declined 9% since 2021.
8.2 / 1k
20 Aurora
Violent Crime has declined 9% since 2021.
7.8 / 1k
21 Commerce City
Violent Crime has increased 22% since 2021.
7.2 / 1k
22 Rocky Ford
Violent Crime has increased 14% since 2021.
6.9 / 1k
23 Lakewood
Violent Crime has increased 4% since 2021.
6.2 / 1k
24 Dove Valley
Violent Crime has declined 9% since 2021.
6.2 / 1k
25 Meridian
Violent Crime has declined 9% since 2021.
6.2 / 1k
Research notes

How to read this ranking

Research note

What this ranking means

This page is useful for a current statewide pressure screen. It compares supported Colorado cities by aggregate violent-crime rate before you open the deeper city briefs. Outside Colorado, this remains statewide fallback context rather than local incident-feed depth.

Research note

What this ranking can miss

A current city rate does not tell you whether conditions are improving, how concentrated the pressure is, or which neighborhoods are driving it. Open the city brief and neighborhood pages next.