Crime in Clifton, Colorado
Major crime in Clifton is 37% below the U.S. rate per resident: 37% lower for persons crimes and 37% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 12.3% 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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Vandalism stands out most, at 16% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Clifton 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 Clifton
The middle half of Clifton residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 35 and 63; the typical (median) resident's is 56.
- 0–5039.3%
- 50–10047.0%
- 100–20013.7%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 12.3% 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.
Clifton against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
592 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Clifton; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Clifton has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Fruitvale (1 mi), is 39% above Clifton's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Clifton
What are the most common crimes in Clifton?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 114 a year), theft from vehicle (about 47 a year) and aggravated assault (about 38 a year). Compared with the U.S., vandalism stands out most: 16% above 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. Clifton's figures add up its 13 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Clifton has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 6.3% 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: 25,028. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Clifton, Colorado." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/co/clifton
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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