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Public safety

Vehicle thefts in Colorado Springs are below their peak

This is vehicle theft reported by the Colorado Springs Police Department, per hundred thousand people it serves, from the FBI's published agency data. It counts one offense, and says nothing about crime in general.

Vehicle thefts per hundred thousand people served
691.2 per 100,000 CALC
2024 · FBI Crime Data Explorer
3,397 offenses reported by the Colorado Springs Police Department / 491,474 population served x 100,000. The agency's own population, published in the same response — not a state figure and not the FBI's state matched population.
Vehicle thefts per hundred thousand people served
816.1 per 100,000 CALC
2023 · FBI Crime Data Explorer
3,993 offenses reported by the Colorado Springs Police Department / 489,254 population served x 100,000. The agency's own population, published in the same response — not a state figure and not the FBI's state matched population.
The difference
−15.3% CALC
2024 · FBI Crime Data Explorer
(691.2 − 816.1) ÷ 816.1 = −15.3%

The vehicle-theft chart, on the Colorado Springs page

Where these figures come from

Data as of 30 August 2026. Every figure here is read from the checked Colorado Springs dataset when this page is built, so a correction to the data corrects this page. Nothing on it was typed by hand.

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Vehicle thefts in Colorado Springs are below their peak — Vehicle thefts per hundred thousand people served: 691.2 per 100,000; Vehicle thefts per hundred thousand people served: 816.1 per 100,000.