Crime in Cañon City, Colorado
Major crime in Cañon City is 1.8 times the U.S. rate per resident: 2.0 times for persons crimes and 1.7 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.6% 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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Rape / sexual assault stands out most, at 4.8 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Cañon City 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 Cañon City
The middle half of Cañon City residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 90 and 239; the typical (median) resident's is 132. The citywide figure (175) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10032.4%
- 100–20040.9%
- 200–40016.6%
- 400+10.1%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekdays, day and night
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.6% 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.
Cañon City against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
174 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Cañon City; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Cañon City has a higher major-crime index than 7 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Lincoln Park (2 mi), is 74% below Cañon City's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Cañon City
What are the most common crimes in Cañon City?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 199 a year), shoplifting (about 112 a year) and aggravated assault (about 79 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 4.8 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. Cañon City's figures add up its 15 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Cañon City's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 34.2% 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: 18,302. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Cañon City, Colorado." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/co/ca-on-city
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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