Crime in Lafayette, Colorado
Major crime in Lafayette is 24% above the U.S. rate per resident: 22% lower for persons crimes and 34% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 2.3% 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 2.5 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Lafayette 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 Lafayette
The middle half of Lafayette residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 68 and 168; the typical (median) resident's is 93. The citywide figure (124) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5014.4%
- 50–10037.7%
- 100–20034.5%
- 200–40012.0%
- 400+1.5%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime rose 2.3% 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.
Lafayette against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
204 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Lafayette; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Lafayette has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Louisville (3 mi), is 35% below Lafayette's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Lafayette
What are the most common crimes in Lafayette?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 238 a year), theft from vehicle (about 115 a year) and shoplifting (about 102 a year). Compared with the U.S., vandalism stands out most: 2.5 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. Lafayette's figures add up its 20 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Lafayette has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 36.0% 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: 29,640. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Lafayette, Colorado." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/co/lafayette
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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