Performance layer · 2026
What the money buys
The budget shows what the city adopts. This page adds the public record of what that money delivers, beside outcome measures from federal publishers. No causal claim is made, here or anywhere on this site.
Aurora is a city inside three counties, and this page is shaped by what that breaks. Three of the four measures every state locale carries do not survive the trip down. A corrections budget does not exist at the city level, because the city runs no jail system — that money sits in three county budgets. An incarceration rate is stated by no publisher at the city level, and this site does not compose one across three sheriffs’ rosters. The vehicle theft rank orders the 51 state-level jurisdictions and a city is not a member of that set. What does transfer is the FBI’s agency endpoint, which is where the one real series below comes from.
Justice
Corrections budget NOT ELIGIBLE
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Aurora runs no jail system and no corrections department, so a city corrections budget does not exist to publish. People arrested in Aurora are held in county jails — Arapahoe County’s above all, since it holds 84.7% of residents — and a county sheriff’s budget is county money, not city money. The nearest city line, the Detention Division, is a short-hold operation explained below; presenting it under this name would be a substitute, not the measure. All three counties are published on the dashboard in their own section, each under its own name — two of them with a jail line, and one that publishes none.
People incarcerated /100k NOT ELIGIBLE
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Aurora holds nobody in custody, so a city rate has no numerator — the same reason this measure is not eligible on every city page here. People arrested in Aurora are held by whichever of three different counties’ sheriffs has them, and the state pages count sentenced prisoners under state jurisdiction, which is a different government’s measure with no city row. No publisher states how many people from Aurora are in custody: the federal jail survey reports by facility size category rather than by named jurisdiction, and composing a city figure across three sheriffs’ rosters would be our invention, not a published fact. The field stays blank rather than estimated.
Vehicle thefts /100k CALC
916.9
2024 · 3,648 offenses reported by the police department ÷ 397,852, the population the department itself serves × 100,000 — the FBI’s own per-agency figure, published in the same response as the counts · not comparable with a state rate, which divides by a different denominator · −31.2% on 2023, and down from the 2022 peak of 1,753.7
Vehicle theft rank NOT ELIGIBLE
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The rank orders the 51 state-level jurisdictions by theft rate, and a city is not one of them, so this measure does not exist at the city level. Ranking Aurora against a chosen set of other cities would produce a number under the same name meaning something else, so none is produced. Marked not eligible rather than pending, because no amount of work would close it.
No measure, so no chart. A city corrections budget does not exist — the money is in three county budgets. There is no series because there is no figure.
Nothing published, so nothing drawn. No publisher states a jail count for Aurora residents, and this site does not compose one across three sheriffs’ rosters.
Not eligible. The rank is a comparison between states. There is no chart because the measure does not exist at the city level.
Hover over the chart for exact values.
The denominator is the police department’s own figure, and the series has no break
The rate above divides by the population the Aurora Police Department serves — the FBI publishes it in the same response as the counts. It is not the Census resident population (403,130 for 2024 against 397,852 here); the two are close because the department serves the city, and they are different bases, so a later editor must not “correct” one into the other.
The 2021 reporting break that gaps other locales’ charts does not gap this one. The FBI retired its older summary reporting system nationally in 2021, and agencies that converted that year show a mechanical rise or a hole. The FBI’s own roster dates this department’s incident-based reporting from 1985 — an original NIBRS agency — so its counts are on one basis end to end. All eleven years report twelve months, and the smallest annual count is 1,063, far above the non-report floor this site applies where a coverage series is unavailable.
What the chart shows is the department’s own record: a rate that tripled from 2014 to the 2022 peak and has fallen by nearly half since. No cause is claimed for either direction.
The 2021 reporting break that gaps other locales’ charts does not gap this one. The FBI retired its older summary reporting system nationally in 2021, and agencies that converted that year show a mechanical rise or a hole. The FBI’s own roster dates this department’s incident-based reporting from 1985 — an original NIBRS agency — so its counts are on one basis end to end. All eleven years report twelve months, and the smallest annual count is 1,063, far above the non-report floor this site applies where a coverage series is unavailable.
What the chart shows is the department’s own record: a rate that tripled from 2014 to the 2022 peak and has fallen by nearly half since. No cause is claimed for either direction.
View the vehicle-theft series as a table
| Year | Offenses | Population served | Rate /100k |
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| 2014 | 1,063 | 350,948 | 302.9 |
| 2015 | 1,263 | 360,237 | 350.6 |
| 2016 | 1,542 | 366,477 | 420.8 |
| 2017 | 2,205 | 368,018 | 599.2 |
| 2018 | 2,213 | 372,824 | 593.6 |
| 2019 | 2,262 | 380,600 | 594.3 |
| 2020 | 3,865 | 385,720 | 1002.0 |
| 2021 | 5,530 | 393,897 | 1403.9 |
| 2022 | 6,877 | 392,134 | 1753.7 |
| 2023 | 5,294 | 396,976 | 1333.6 |
| 2024 | 3,648 | 397,852 | 916.9 |
Offenses are the FBI CDE’s monthly actuals summed to years, and every year carries all twelve months — asserted each time the dataset is rebuilt. The population is the FBI’s own per-agency figure for the same year. The rate is the division, rounded to one decimal.
The corrections money for Aurora residents sits in three county budgets
What the city itself runs is the Detention Division, a program inside the Court Administration department: $7,799,910 and 54 budgeted positions in the 2026 Adopted budget. Its own program description is custodial care in a municipal short-hold facility and transporting people to county jails. The five Court Administration programs sum to the department’s printed $15,426,489 exactly, which is what pins this figure.
Jail, courts of record, the district attorney and the safety net are county functions, split here across Arapahoe, Adams and Douglas counties. Their budgets are separate governments’ money and are never summed with any city figure on this page.
Jail, courts of record, the district attorney and the safety net are county functions, split here across Arapahoe, Adams and Douglas counties. Their budgets are separate governments’ money and are never summed with any city figure on this page.
Education NOT ELIGIBLE
The city does not run schools. School districts do, and each is a separate government with its own taxes and budget. Aurora’s land lies in five school districts: Aurora Public Schools (Adams-Arapahoe School District 28J), Cherry Creek School District 5, Douglas County School District RE-1, School District 27J and Bennett School District 29-J.
No district’s boundary matches the city’s, in either direction. Aurora Public Schools holds most of the city’s people, but not all of them, and it also serves people outside the city. Cherry Creek holds nearly all of the rest, and more than half of its own residents live outside Aurora. The other three districts each hold only a small edge of the city.
So no publisher states an education figure for the city as a whole. Adding districts together would not make one, because the sum would not stay inside the city. If education figures appear here later, they will be per district, each labeled with the overlap. The districts also budget from July to June, while the city budgets by calendar year. We checked each boundary block by block against the Census Bureau’s 2020 maps of school districts and cities.
No district’s boundary matches the city’s, in either direction. Aurora Public Schools holds most of the city’s people, but not all of them, and it also serves people outside the city. Cherry Creek holds nearly all of the rest, and more than half of its own residents live outside Aurora. The other three districts each hold only a small edge of the city.
So no publisher states an education figure for the city as a whole. Adding districts together would not make one, because the sum would not stay inside the city. If education figures appear here later, they will be per district, each labeled with the overlap. The districts also budget from July to June, while the city budgets by calendar year. We checked each boundary block by block against the Census Bureau’s 2020 maps of school districts and cities.