Photo: Jared Winkler · CC BY-SA 4.0Castle Rock has less violent crime per resident than nine in ten U.S. towns
The rate the grade counts dropped 21% from 2023 to 2025. In sum, crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025 put Castle Rock at B+ (#15 of 87 graded towns in Colorado): less crime per resident than 70% of U.S. towns. Add to that, each year brought 0.3 violent crime and 10.3 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (5.7 and 31.5 in the rest of Colorado).
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of CO” is every other Colorado city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What stands out about safety in Castle Rock
Among Colorado towns, higher
Colorado’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Castle Rock’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 83% of the 87 Colorado towns we grade, against 70% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Reported crime is falling
Crime reported per resident fell from 2023 to 2025 by more than ordinary year-to-year swings, on the grade’s own score. Trend ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Castle Rock’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are lower than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the stronger of the two.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Castle Rock | Rest of Colorado | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.3 | 6.3 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.2 | 6.0 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.4 | 5.9 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.3 | 5.1 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Castle Rock’s police reported 75 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.3 per 1,000 residents a year, against 5.7 in the rest of Colorado and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Castle Rock property | Rest of Colorado property | Castle Rock violent | Rest of Colorado violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 11.6 | 39.7 | 0.3 | 6.3 |
| 2023 | 12.1 | 35.9 | 0.2 | 6.0 |
| 2024 | 9.4 | 32.1 | 0.4 | 5.9 |
| 2025 | 9.4 | 26.4 | 0.3 | 5.1 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Colorado.
Crime in Castle Rock per 1,000 residents
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And fewer than 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
829 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
26 violent and 803 property, as reported to the FBI by Castle Rock’s police.
Nine people died in crashes on Castle Rock’s roads in 2019–2023
Castle Rock had 8 fatal crashes in five years, in which nine people died; 3 were pedestrians. 4 died in crashes on an Interstate.
That is fewer than is typical for Colorado towns of 25,000–100,000 people: at their median rate (6.6 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Castle Rock’s size would see about 26 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Castle Rock’s own rate (2.3) is context, not a ranking.
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
Castle Rock and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Castle Rock | B+ | 0.3 | 10.3 |
| Castle Pines Village | — | — | — |
| The Pinery | — | — | — |
| Castle Pines | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Castle Pines Village and The Pinery are unincorporated communities (census-designated places) with no police department of their own. Castle Pines has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025.
Colorado towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Castle Rock | B+ | 0.3 | 10.3 |
| Broomfield | C+ | 1.5 | 18.7 |
| Loveland | C | 2.9 | 19.2 |
| Boulder | C− | 3.4 | 27.2 |
| Grand Junction | D | 5.3 | 29.0 |
| Commerce City | D | 7.7 | 27.3 |
The five graded Colorado towns closest to Castle Rock’s population (83,815), by grade.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- One number for all of Castle Rock. A citywide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of the city to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Castle Rock’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (85,729 in 2025); our figure for Castle Rock is 83,815 (2025 Census estimate).
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in Castle Rock
Is Castle Rock, CO safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Castle Rock reports less crime per resident than 70% of U.S. towns, a B+ Safety Grade and #15 of 87 in Colorado. Its police reported 0.3 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 5.7 in the rest of Colorado and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Castle Rock?
0.3 violent and 10.3 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Colorado reports 5.7 and 31.5; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
How many homicides were there in Castle Rock in 2025?
Castle Rock’s police reported 0 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 0.0 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Who polices Castle Rock?
Castle Rock’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Castle Rock”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.