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Dolores · 2023 public safety benchmarks

Montezuma County · Southwest · Pop. 933 (2025 estimate); 2023 per-resident figures use 926

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FY2023 in brief

Dolores spent $388 per resident on police in FY2021, 17% above the median of the 174 Colorado municipalities reporting.

Generated from the figures below. Every number links to its source.

Notes: spending is fiscal-year Census data; staffing and crime are calendar-year FBI data via CBI. Dollars are nominal. Definitions: orivian.ai/benchmarks/methodology#public-safety

Compared with

The finance peers: nearest on population, household income and region

Peers matched on FY2021 finances, the latest available.

No municipal police department reporting

Dolores doesn't report crime under its own police department. Crime here is reported by another agency, such as the county sheriff, and isn't broken out for the town.

Some towns pay another government for policing, and the Census Bureau records that spending, so police spending is shown where it’s published.

Police spending per resident (definition)FY2021, latest available

$388
18% below peers
Peer median
$471
CO median · 174 with a published figure
$332
Position
Higher than 62% of the 174 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
+16.7%/yr

How this number was calculated

Police spending per resident · $388
Reported by the city to the Census Bureau

  1. 1Metric

    $388 Police spending divided by population

    = Police spending ÷ population

    Full definition: Police spending per resident

  2. 2Inputs

    Police spending $354K ÷ population 913 (2021 estimate)

  3. 3Census line items

    • E62 Police protection, current operations
    • F62 Police protection, construction

  4. 4Source file

Trends

Police spending by fiscal year; staffing and crime by calendar year. Lines break where a year is missing or withheld; nothing is interpolated.

  • This city
  • Peer median
  • Withheld (shown on the axis, no value)
Police spending per resident
FY2016 $179 to FY2021 $388. 1 year withheld.$0$439$878’16’21’23Peer median FY2016: $878Peer median FY2021: $471FY2016: $179FY2021: $388FY2023: withheld — Police spending per resident is 16% of the peer median

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

Census definition change: Excludes equipment purchases and payments to other governments, which Census stopped reporting after FY2021.

  • FY2023 withheld: Police spending per resident is 16% of the peer median

Peer group changed in FY2021, FY2023. Peers are matched each year, so the peer median can step when the group changes.

Show data table
Police spending per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$179$878$272 (179 reporting, sample year)
FY2021$388$471$332 (174 reporting, sample year)
FY2023Withheld (Police spending per resident is 16% of the peer median)Benchmark unavailable$428 (91 reporting, sample year)

About these numbers

  • The city's own published statistics may differ: CBI counts some offenses once per victim, while many cities count once per case.
  • Reported crime reflects what is reported to police and how it is recorded, not only how much crime occurs.
  • Police spending here is FY2021, latest available, the government’s fiscal year; crime, clearances and staffing are calendar year 2023.
Read the public safety methodology

Sources · Retrieved October 12, 2026 from orivian.ai/benchmarks/public-safety

Every figure on this page is read from the published index; nothing is recalculated for display. Read the methodology

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