Public safety
Vehicle thefts in Lakewood are below their peak
This is vehicle theft reported by the Lakewood Police Department, per hundred thousand city residents by the Census estimate, from the FBI's published agency data. It counts one offense, and says nothing about crime in general.
Vehicle thefts per hundred thousand residents
771.3 per 100,000 CALC
2024 · FBI Crime Data Explorer
1,214 offenses / 157,395 residents (Census Vintage 2025 place estimate for 2024) x 100,000 = 771.3. The FBI's own response says this agency serves 155,868 people that year — within 1.0% of the Census figure, recorded as a cross-check and not used as the denominator. NOT comparable with a state rate, which divides by the FBI's coverage-matched population.
Vehicle thefts per hundred thousand residents — highest year published
1,355.2 per 100,000 CALC
2022 · FBI Crime Data Explorer
2,118 offenses / 156,286 residents (Census Vintage 2025 place estimate for 2022) x 100,000 = 1355.2. The FBI's own response says this agency serves 157,068 people that year — within 0.5% of the Census figure, recorded as a cross-check and not used as the denominator. NOT comparable with a state rate, which divides by the FBI's coverage-matched population.
The vehicle-theft chart, on the Lakewood page
Where these figures come from
- FBI Crime Data Explorer — CDE summarized offense API, AGENCY endpoint (Lakewood Police Department, ORI CO0300400) (opens in a new tab)
Data as of 30 August 2026. Every figure here is read from the checked Lakewood 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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