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Jefferson County Crime Statistics Colorado state

In the year 2007 there were a total of 16,793 crimes in Jefferson County, Colorado. With a population of 487,985, there was 1 crime for every 29.1 people in the county. Out of the 16,793 crimes reported, 15,416 were crimes against property (burglery, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson) and 1,377 were violent crimes (murder, rape, aggravated assault, and robbery).

2007 Crime Statistics
Crime	Reported	Crime Rate*
Murder	8	1.64
Rape	196	40.17
Robbery	275	56.35
Assault	898	184.02
Burglary	2,511	514.56
Larceny	11,102	2275.07
Vehicle	1,794	367.63
Arson	9	1.8

The 2007 crime rate was 3,441.3 incidents per 100,000 people. A -16.1% change in the total crime rate from 2006 (4,102.4 incidents). There were 282.2 violent crimes reported per 100,000 people resulting in a -6.4% change (from 298.6 incidents). Property crimes changed -17.7% from (3,803.8) the previous year to 3,159.1 per 100,000 people.

Jefferson County ranks #37 for violent crimes and #49 for crimes against property in the state. While it ranks #1,803 and #2,306 for violent and property related offenses respectively in the nation.

A snapshot of the most current crime statistics are shown in the chart to the left and historical criminal data is shown in the charts below.

Jefferson County Criminal Records
Jefferson County Jails

Year	Murder	Murder Rate*	Rape	Rape Rate*	Robbery	Robbery Rate*	Agg. Assault	Agg. Asslt Rate*
2006	9	1.8	238	48.3	316	64.1	908	184.3
2005	10	2.0	192	39.2	336	68.6	954	194.7
2004	9	1.8	165	33.6	340	69.3	880	179.3
2003	14	2.8	149	30.2	317	64.2	711	144.0
2002	9	1.8	162	31.9	260	51.2	642	126.5
2001	9	1.8	149	29.9	255	51.2	597	120.0
2000	7	1.4	139	28.7	239	49.3	531	109.6
1999	25	5.3	100	21.3	219	46.6	380	80.8
1998	8	1.7	54	11.6	128	27.6	272	58.7
1997	9	1.9	106	22.7	214	45.7	454	97.1
1996	10	2.2	115	25.0	333	72.5	657	143.0
1995	15	3.3	112	24.9	286	63.5	869	193.0
1994	13	2.9	137	30.9	269	60.7	917	207.1

Year	Burglary	Burglary Rate*	Larceny	Larceny Rate*	Vehicle Theft	Vhcl Theft Rate*	Arson	Arson Rate*
2006	3,451	700.5	12,838	2605.8	2,443	495.9	8	1.6
2005	3,290	671.5	15,004	3062.2	3,293	672.1	11	2.2
2004	3,074	626.3	14,225	2898.0	2,914	593.7	11	2.2
2003	3,025	612.7	13,128	2659.0	2,411	488.3	15	3.0
2002	2,633	518.7	13,690	2697.0	2,179	429.3	14	2.8
2001	2,441	490.6	12,635	2539.2	2,016	405.1	15	3.0
2000	2,559	528.1	12,973	2677.1	1,673	345.2	19	3.9
1999	2,626	558.4	12,840	2730.2	1,388	295.1	11	2.3
1998	1,989	428.9	8,723	1881.0	843	181.8	8	1.7
1997	2,867	612.9	13,287	2840.4	1,422	304.0	11	2.4
1996	3,173	690.7	13,542	2947.8	1,268	276.0	15	3.3
1995	3,557	790.0	15,196	3374.9	1,172	260.3	17	3.8
1994	3,695	834.4	14,554	3286.6	1,292	291.8	17	3.8

*Crime Rate is based on number of reported cases per 100,000 population