Crime in Columbine, Colorado
Major crime in Columbine is 54% below the U.S. rate per resident: 50% lower for persons crimes and 55% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 20.4% 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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Every crime type in Columbine is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Columbine 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 Columbine
The middle half of Columbine residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 30 and 57; the typical (median) resident's is 36. The citywide figure (46) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5070.9%
- 50–10024.3%
- 100–2004.7%
- 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 20.4% 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.
Columbine against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,582 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Columbine; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Columbine has a higher major-crime index than 2 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Ken Caryl (2 mi), is 11% above Columbine's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Columbine
What are the most common crimes in Columbine?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 61 a year), theft from vehicle (about 37 a year) and aggravated assault (about 28 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: about 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. Columbine's figures add up its 21 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Columbine has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 33.9% 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: 24,894. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Columbine, Colorado." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/co/columbine
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Ken Caryl2 mi51
- Littleton3 mi133
- Dakota Ridge4 mi41
- Sheridan5 mi209
- Englewood6 mi266
- Highlands Ranch7 mi56
- Roxborough Park7 mi40
- Cherry Hills Village8 mi51