Colorado Municipal Index · Public safety
How does your city’s public safety spending compare?
Police spending, staffing, reported crime and clearance rates for Colorado municipalities, benchmarked against true peers. Every number traces to its public source.
- 150municipalities with their own police department
- 2016–2025calendar years
- FBI · CBI · Censussources
- Incomplete yearswithheld
Colorado police spending and staffing
Police spending per resident · FY2023
DurangoFY2023
$496
police spending per resident
16% above the Colorado median of $428 (91 reporting)
Open Durango- Above Colorado median
- Below median
- Other municipalities, sized by population
Featured cities
Each city’s latest complete year against the Colorado median for the same year. Police spending is by fiscal year; staffing, crime and clearance by calendar year. Sort by any column.
Reported crime reflects what is reported to police and how it is recorded, not only how much crime occurs.
| Fiscal year · Census | Calendar year · FBI via CBI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broomfield | $49716% above CO median | 1.731% below CO median | 1.526% below CO median | 15.010% above CO median | 82.6%55% above CO median |
| Colorado Springs | $26837% below CO median | 1.539% below CO median | 6.93.3× CO median | 30.12.2× CO median | 48.3%9% below CO median |
| Durango | $49616% above CO median | 2.610% above CO median2024 | 3.461% above CO median2024 | 34.52.2× CO median2024 | 79.1%58% above CO median2024 |
| Fort Collins | $32823% below CO median | 1.443% below CO median | 2.939% above CO median | 17.529% above CO median | 75.5%42% above CO median |
| Grand Junction | $58136% above CO median | 1.827% below CO median | 5.42.6× CO median | 23.573% above CO median | 63.4%19% above CO median |
| Greeley | $31327% below CO median | 1.443% below CO median | 6.33.1× CO median | 29.02.1× CO median | 57.5%8% above CO median |
| Longmont | $44518% above CO medianFY2022, latest available | 1.539% below CO median | 3.569% above CO median | 24.177% above CO median | 39.7%25% below CO median |
| Loveland | $35717% below CO median | 1.442% below CO median | 1.620% below CO median | 14.57% above CO median | 23.1%57% below CO median |
| Montrose | $55931% above CO median | 2.65% above CO median | 1.910% below CO median | 18.536% above CO median | 90.0%69% above CO median |
| Pueblo | $28633% below CO median | 1.731% below CO median | 11.85.7× CO median | 43.23.2× CO median | 20.4%62% below CO median |
- Durango shows 2024: its 2025 crime figures are withheld (Agency reported 3 of 12 months).
How to read these benchmarks
Read the public safety methodology01Reported crime isn’t all crime
Reported crime reflects what is reported to police and how it is recorded, not only how much crime occurs.
02Why counts differ from city reports
The city's own published statistics may differ: CBI counts some offenses once per victim, while many cities count once per case.
03Calendar years and fiscal years
Crime, clearances and staffing are calendar years (2025 in the table above, except where noted). Police spending comes from Census finance data in each government’s fiscal year (FY2023 above), and every figure is labeled.
04Towns without their own department
Where a town is policed by another agency, such as the county sheriff, its crime isn’t broken out for the town. Its page says so and shows police spending where Census reports it.
Public data shows the what.
Orivian connects your city's own calls-for-service, overtime and work-order data to show the why.