Photo: Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 4.0Glendale reports more crime per resident than almost every U.S. town
On crimes reported to the FBI by Glendale’s police in 2023–2025, it grades D− for safety.
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 Glendale
A job center
Glendale has 10,063 jobs based in town for 4,475 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
Reported crime is rising
Crime reported per resident rose 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 Glendale’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 higher than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the closer of the two to typical.
Violent crime, by year and by type
Glendale’s police reported 246 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 18.5 per 1,000 residents a year, against 5.6 in the rest of Colorado and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
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| Year | Glendale | Rest of Colorado | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 18.7 | 6.2 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 13.0 | 5.9 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 22.7 | 5.8 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 19.9 | 5.0 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Reported crime is rising
Reported crime per resident rose from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Colorado.
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| Year | Glendale property | Rest of Colorado property | Glendale violent | Rest of Colorado violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 209.7 | 39.0 | 18.7 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 137.5 | 35.3 | 13.0 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 194.0 | 31.5 | 22.7 | 5.8 |
| 2025 | 155.5 | 25.9 | 19.9 | 5.0 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
For every 1,000 residents, about 156 property crimes reported
And about 20 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
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.
777 crimes reported in 2025
88 violent and 689 property, as reported to the FBI by Glendale’s police.
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
One person died in crashes on Glendale’s roads in 2019–2023
Glendale had 1 fatal crash in five years, in which one person died; 1 was a pedestrian.
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 Glendale’s size would see about 0 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Glendale’s own rate (4.4) 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.
Glendale and its neighbors
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glendale | D− | 18.5 | 162.2 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Colorado towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glendale | D− | 18.5 | 162.2 |
| New Castle | B+ | 1.4 | 6.1 |
| Basalt | B− | 2.0 | 10.5 |
| Manitou Springs | C | 2.6 | 15.6 |
| Vail | D | 3.7 | 40.9 |
| Edgewater | D− | 3.0 | 81.5 |
The five graded Colorado towns closest to Glendale’s population (4,475), by grade.
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 Glendale. 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 Glendale’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (4,432 in 2025); our figure for Glendale is 4,475 (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 Glendale
Is Glendale, CO safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Glendale reports more crime per resident than 100% of U.S. towns, a D− Safety Grade. Its police reported 18.5 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 Glendale?
18.5 violent and 162.2 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Colorado reports 5.6 and 30.9; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Is crime going up or down in Glendale?
Reported crime per resident rose from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings.
Who polices Glendale?
Glendale’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Glendale”. 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.