Photo: Nils Huenerfuerst · CC BY 4.0Per resident, Glenwood Springs records more crime than 92% of U.S. towns
That puts it at D for safety, judged on crimes Glenwood Springs’ police reported from 2023 to 2025: #68 of 87 graded towns in Colorado. Add to that, it has more violent crime than 79% of U.S. towns, and more property crime than 96%. In a usual year, 3.6 violent crimes and 38.8 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the rest of Colorado, 5.6 and 31.0.
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 Glenwood Springs
Among Colorado towns, closer to the middle
Colorado’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Glenwood Springs’ place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 22% of the 87 Colorado towns we grade, against 8% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A college town
Glenwood Springs is home to Colorado Mountain College, with 5,179 students taking classes on campus (federal college data), and 6% of residents are enrolled in college (Census). Students who live in town count as residents, so they are part of the per-resident rate. How to read it ↓
A job center
Glenwood Springs has 8,975 jobs based in town for 10,395 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 Glenwood Springs’ 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.
Crime in Glenwood Springs 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 4 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Glenwood Springs | Rest of Colorado | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3.5 | 6.2 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 4.1 | 5.9 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 3.1 | 5.8 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 3.7 | 5.0 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Glenwood Springs’ police reported 113 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 3.6 per 1,000 residents a year, against 5.6 in the rest of Colorado and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Glenwood Springs property | Rest of Colorado property | Glenwood Springs violent | Rest of Colorado violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 36.9 | 39.2 | 3.5 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 37.4 | 35.4 | 4.1 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 44.6 | 31.7 | 3.1 | 5.8 |
| 2025 | 34.6 | 26.1 | 3.7 | 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.
397 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.
38 violent and 359 property, as reported to the FBI by Glenwood Springs’ police.
Two people died in crashes on Glenwood Springs’s roads in 2019–2023
Glenwood Springs had 2 fatal crashes in five years, in which two people died. Most of these deaths (1 of 2) were on an Interstate passing through, so they say more about through-traffic than about the town’s own streets.
That is about what is typical for Colorado towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (3.5 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Glenwood Springs’s size would see about 2 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Glenwood Springs’s own rate (3.9) 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.
Glenwood Springs and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glenwood Springs | D | 3.6 | 38.8 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Colorado towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glenwood Springs | D | 3.6 | 38.8 |
| Timnath | B+ | 0.4 | 9.8 |
| Rifle | C+ | 2.9 | 12.0 |
| Fort Lupton | C | 3.5 | 17.1 |
| Delta | C− | 1.8 | 31.5 |
| Alamosa | D− | 8.4 | 46.7 |
The five graded Colorado towns closest to Glenwood Springs’ population (10,395), 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 Glenwood Springs. 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 Glenwood Springs’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (10,389 in 2025); our figure for Glenwood Springs is 10,395 (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 Glenwood Springs
Is Glenwood Springs, CO safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Glenwood Springs reports more crime per resident than 92% of U.S. towns, a D Safety Grade and #68 of 87 in Colorado. Its police reported 3.6 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 Glenwood Springs?
3.6 violent and 38.8 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Colorado reports 5.6 and 31.0; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Who polices Glenwood Springs?
Glenwood Springs’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Glenwood Springs”. 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.