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Walsenburg · 2023 public safety benchmarks

Huerfano County · Southern Colorado · Pop. 3,039 (2025 estimate); 2023 per-resident figures use 3,087

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FY2023 in brief

Walsenburg spent $265 per resident on police in FY2023, 38% below the median of the 91 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

Walsenburg 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)FY2023

$265
45% below peers
Peer median
$484
CO median · 91 with a published figure
$428
Position
Higher than 7% of the 91 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
Not enough history for a 5-year change

How this number was calculated

Police spending per resident · $265
Includes Census estimates for 68% of revenue

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

  1. 1Metric

    $265 Police spending divided by population

    = Police spending ÷ population

    Full definition: Police spending per resident

  2. 2Inputs

    Police spending $818K ÷ population 3,087 (2023 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 $263 to FY2023 $265.$0$241.9$483.8’16’23Peer median FY2023: $484FY2016: $263FY2023: $265. 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.

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Police spending per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$263Benchmark unavailable$272 (179 reporting, sample year)
FY2023$265$484$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 FY2023, 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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