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Silver Cliff · 2021 public safety benchmarks

Custer County · Southern Colorado · Pop. 713 (2025 estimate); 2021 per-resident figures use 656

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FY2021 in brief

Silver Cliff spent $25 per resident on police in FY2016, 91% below the median of the 179 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 FY2016 finances, the latest available.

No municipal police department reporting

Silver Cliff 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, latest available

$25
91% below CO median
Peer median
Benchmark unavailable
CO median · 179 with a published figure
$272
Position
Higher than 3% 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 · $25
Reported by the city to the Census Bureau

  1. 1Metric

    $25 Police spending divided by population

    = Police spending ÷ population

    Full definition: Police spending per resident

  2. 2Inputs

    Police spending $16K ÷ population 643 (2016 estimate)

  3. 3Census line items

    • E62 Police protection, current operations
    • M62 Payments to other governments for police services

  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 $25. 4 years withheld.$0$12.4$24.9’16’18’19’20’21FY2016: $25FY2018: withheld — Police spending per resident is 4% of the peer medianFY2019: withheld — Police spending per resident is 6% of the peer medianFY2020: withheld — Police spending per resident is 3% of the peer medianFY2021: withheld — Police spending per resident is 913% of this city's typical level in other years

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

  • FY2018 withheld: Police spending per resident is 4% of the peer median
  • FY2019 withheld: Police spending per resident is 6% of the peer median
  • FY2020 withheld: Police spending per resident is 3% of the peer median
  • FY2021 withheld: Police spending per resident is 913% of this city's typical level in other years
Show data table
Police spending per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$25Benchmark unavailable$272 (179 reporting, sample year)
FY2018Withheld (Police spending per resident is 4% of the peer median)Benchmark unavailable$312 (72 reporting, sample year)
FY2019Withheld (Police spending per resident is 6% of the peer median)Benchmark unavailable$330 (72 reporting, sample year)
FY2020Withheld (Police spending per resident is 3% of the peer median)Benchmark unavailable$367 (71 reporting, sample year)
FY2021Withheld (Police spending per resident is 913% of this city's typical level in other years)Benchmark unavailable$332 (174 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, latest available, the government’s fiscal year; crime, clearances and staffing are calendar year 2021.
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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