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Olathe · 2016 public safety benchmarks

Montrose County · Western Slope · Pop. 1,927 (2025 estimate); 2016 per-resident figures use 1,804 · Public safety data 2016–2025

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2016 in brief

Olathe spent $198 per resident on police in FY2016, 27% below the median of the 179 Colorado municipalities reporting. Olathe doesn't report crime under its own police department.

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

No municipal police department reporting

Olathe 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)FY2016

$198
45% below peers
Peer median
$360
CO median · 179 with a published figure
$272
Position
Higher than 28% of the 179 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
Not enough history for a 5-year change

How this number was calculated

Police spending per resident · $198
Reported by the city to the Census Bureau

  1. 1Metric

    $198 Police spending divided by population

    = Police spending ÷ population

    Full definition: Police spending per resident

  2. 2Inputs

    Police spending $357K ÷ population 1,804 (2016 estimate)

  3. 3Census line items

    • E62 Police protection, current operations
    • G62 Police protection, other capital outlay

  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 $198 to FY2023 $328.$0$441.5$883’16’21’23Peer median FY2016: $360Peer median FY2021: $427Peer median FY2023: $883FY2016: $198FY2021: $305FY2023: $328. Excludes equipment purchases and payments to other governments, which Census stopped reporting after FY2021.

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.

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

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Police spending per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$198$360$272 (179 reporting, sample year)
FY2021$305$427$332 (174 reporting, sample year)
FY2023$328$883$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 FY2016, the government’s fiscal year; crime, clearances and staffing are calendar year 2016.
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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