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Superior · 2022 public safety benchmarks

Boulder, Jefferson counties · Denver Metro · Pop. 13,637 (2025 estimate); 2022 per-resident figures use 13,025

FY2022 in brief

Superior spent $166 per resident on police in FY2022, 56% below the median of the 71 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

No municipal police department reporting

Superior 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)FY2022

$166
52% below peers
Peer median
$343
CO median · 71 with a published figure
$377
Position
Higher than 6% of the 71 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
Not enough history for a 5-year change

How this number was calculated

Police spending per resident · $166
Includes Census estimates for 100% of revenue

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

  1. 1Metric

    $166 Police spending divided by population

    = Police spending ÷ population

    Full definition: Police spending per resident

  2. 2Inputs

    Police spending $2.2M ÷ population 13,025 (2022 estimate)

  3. 3Census line items

    • E62 Police protection, current operations

  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 $117 to FY2022 $166.$0$227$454’16’18’19’20’21’22Peer median FY2016: $189Peer median FY2018: $272Peer median FY2019: $454Peer median FY2020: $454Peer median FY2021: $319Peer median FY2022: $343FY2016: $117FY2018: $123FY2019: $128FY2020: $146FY2021: $149FY2022: $166. 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 FY2018, FY2019, FY2020, FY2021, FY2022, the same year as the census definition change. 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$117$189$272 (179 reporting, sample year)
FY2018$123$272$312 (72 reporting, sample year)
FY2019$128$454$330 (72 reporting, sample year)
FY2020$146$454$367 (71 reporting, sample year)
FY2021$149$319$332 (174 reporting, sample year)
FY2022$166$343$377 (71 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 FY2022, the government’s fiscal year; crime, clearances and staffing are calendar year 2022.
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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