Photo: formulanone · CC BY-SA 2.0Recorded crime per resident is higher in Pagosa Springs than in 93% of U.S. towns
It has more violent crime than 95% of U.S. towns, and more property crime than 88%. Graded on crimes Pagosa Springs’ police reported from 2023 to 2025, it scores D for safety. Out of every 1,000 residents, 7.7 violent crimes and 27.4 incidents of property crime are reported annually, against 5.6 and 31.0 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 Pagosa Springs
A job center
Pagosa Springs has 3,093 jobs based in town for 1,838 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 Pagosa 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; property crime is the closer of the two to typical.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Pagosa Springs | Rest of Colorado | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 10.2 | 5.9 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 6.0 | 5.8 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 7.1 | 5.0 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Pagosa Springs’ police reported 42 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 7.7 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 Pagosa 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 7 violent crimes, 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 | Pagosa Springs property | Rest of Colorado property | Pagosa Springs violent | Rest of Colorado violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 35.0 | 35.4 | 10.2 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 17.0 | 31.7 | 6.0 | 5.8 |
| 2025 | 30.5 | 26.1 | 7.1 | 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, 2023–2025, against the rest of Colorado.
69 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.
13 violent and 56 property, as reported to the FBI by Pagosa Springs’ police.
Two people died in crashes on Pagosa Springs’s roads in 2019–2023
Pagosa Springs had 2 fatal crashes in five years, in which two people 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 Pagosa Springs’s size would see about 0 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Pagosa Springs’s own rate (19.1) 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.
Pagosa Springs and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pagosa Springs | D | 7.7 | 27.4 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Colorado towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pagosa Springs | D | 7.7 | 27.4 |
| Crested Butte | B+ | 1.6 | 3.8 |
| Hayden | B+ | 1.0 | 8.3 |
| Center | B− | 2.3 | 9.1 |
| Hudson | C | 2.9 | 15.3 |
| Idaho Springs | D | 5.1 | 32.9 |
The five graded Colorado towns closest to Pagosa Springs’ population (1,838), 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 Pagosa 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 Pagosa Springs’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (1,839 in 2025); our figure for Pagosa Springs is 1,838 (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 Pagosa Springs
Is Pagosa Springs, CO safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Pagosa Springs reports more crime per resident than 93% of U.S. towns, a D Safety Grade. Its police reported 7.7 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 Pagosa Springs?
7.7 violent and 27.4 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 Pagosa Springs?
Pagosa Springs’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Pagosa 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.