Crime in Fort Collins, Colorado
Major crime in Fort Collins is about the U.S. rate per resident: 20% lower for persons crimes and 9% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 19.0% 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 37% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Fort Collins 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 Fort Collins
The middle half of Fort Collins residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 43 and 93; the typical (median) resident's is 63. The citywide figure (103) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5040.8%
- 50–10037.4%
- 100–20014.7%
- 200–4001.7%
- 400+5.5%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekends
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 19.0% 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.
Fort Collins against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
148 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Fort Collins; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Fort Collins 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, Loveland (10 mi), is 34% below Fort Collins's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Fort Collins
What are the most common crimes in Fort Collins?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 1,057 a year), shoplifting (about 752 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 406 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 37% 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. Fort Collins's figures add up its 116 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Fort Collins has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 30.6% 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: 172,167. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Fort Collins, Colorado." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/co/fort-collins
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100