Crime in Brighton, Colorado
Major crime in Brighton is 28% above the U.S. rate per resident: about the same for persons crimes and 34% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 20.3% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.
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Shoplifting stands out most, at 2.2 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Brighton for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Brighton
The middle half of Brighton residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 48 and 135; the typical (median) resident's is 67. The citywide figure (128) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5027.9%
- 50–10026.1%
- 100–20037.5%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+8.6%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest in the daytime
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 20.3% in a year; across Colorado it fell 9.1%
Change in expected crimes, with Colorado as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Brighton against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
192 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Brighton; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Brighton has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Fort Lupton (7 mi), is 37% below Brighton's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Brighton
What are the most common crimes in Brighton?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 348 a year), shoplifting (about 333 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 119 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 2.2 times the U.S. rate per resident.
How we calculated this
Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Brighton's figures add up its 23 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Brighton's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 57.5% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
- Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
- Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
- Residents: 47,989. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Brighton, Colorado." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/co/brighton
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Fort Lupton7 mi80
- Commerce City8 mi152
- Thornton10 mi128
- Dacono10 mi50
- Northglenn11 mi118
- Derby12 mi173
- Frederick12 mi33
- Welby13 mi166