Crested Butte Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Depot · Photo: Int77345 · CC BY-SA 4.0For property crime, Crested Butte beats 86% of U.S. towns per resident
Police counts work out at 1.6 violent crimes and 3.8 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the rest of Colorado they are 5.6 and 31.1. Overall, Crested Butte grades B+ for safety: less crime per resident than 74% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported in 2023–2025.
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 Crested Butte
A job center
Crested Butte has 1,650 jobs based in town for 1,693 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Crested Butte’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; property crime is the stronger of the two.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Crested Butte | Rest of Colorado | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2.4 | 6.2 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 3.0 | 5.9 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.2 | 5.8 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.6 | 5.0 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Crested Butte’s police reported 8 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.6 per 1,000 residents a year, against 5.6 in the rest of Colorado and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Crested Butte 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 about 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Crested Butte property | Rest of Colorado property | Crested Butte violent | Rest of Colorado violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 4.7 | 39.2 | 2.4 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 2.4 | 35.4 | 3.0 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 5.4 | 31.7 | 1.2 | 5.8 |
| 2025 | 3.7 | 26.1 | 0.6 | 5.0 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Colorado.
7 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.
1 violent and 6 property, as reported to the FBI by Crested Butte’s police.
No one died in a crash on Crested Butte’s roads in 2019–2023
That is about what is typical for Colorado towns of 2,500–5,000 people: at their median rate (0.0 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Crested Butte’s size would see about 0 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Crested Butte’s own rate (0.0) 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.
Crested Butte and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crested Butte | B+ | 1.6 | 3.8 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Colorado towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crested Butte | B+ | 1.6 | 3.8 |
| Center | B− | 2.3 | 9.1 |
| Kersey | B− | 1.3 | 12.7 |
| Hudson | C | 2.9 | 15.3 |
| Idaho Springs | D | 5.1 | 32.9 |
| Pagosa Springs | D | 7.7 | 27.4 |
The five graded Colorado towns closest to Crested Butte’s population (1,693), 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 Crested Butte. A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Crested Butte’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (1,640 in 2025); our figure for Crested Butte is 1,693 (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 Crested Butte
Is Crested Butte, CO safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Crested Butte reports less crime per resident than 74% of U.S. towns, a B+ Safety Grade. Its police reported 1.6 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 5.6 in the rest of Colorado and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Crested Butte?
1.6 violent and 3.8 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Colorado reports 5.6 and 31.1; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Who polices Crested Butte?
Crested Butte’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Crested Butte”. 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.