Crime in Golden, Colorado
Major crime in Golden is 30% above the U.S. rate per resident: 54% lower for persons crimes and 49% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.6% 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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Theft from vehicle stands out most, at 1.9 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Golden 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 Golden
The middle half of Golden residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 71 and 172; the typical (median) resident's is 91. The citywide figure (130) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5015.8%
- 50–10034.5%
- 100–20028.5%
- 200–40016.1%
- 400+5.1%
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 8.6% 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.
Golden against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
388 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Golden; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Golden has a higher major-crime index than 3 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, West Pleasant View (2 mi), is 13% below Golden's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Golden
What are the most common crimes in Golden?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 162 a year), theft from vehicle (about 103 a year) and shoplifting (about 80 a year). Compared with the U.S., theft from vehicle stands out most: 1.9 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. Golden's figures add up its 18 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Golden's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 6.4% 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: 20,273. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Golden, Colorado." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/co/golden
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- West Pleasant View2 mi113
- Applewood3 mi447
- Fairmount4 mi53
- Genesee4 mi48
- Lakewood7 mi264
- Wheat Ridge7 mi235
- Arvada8 mi134
- Edgewater8 mi162