The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Grand Junction, CO
Grand Junction is a city of 74,900 in Mesa County and the main city of the Grand Junction metro area, home to 158,600 · Updated November 2026
Is Grand Junction, CO safe?
With an overall CrimeGrade™ of B+, Grand Junction has moderate crime by national standards. Most US neighborhoods have less: 64% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime. Violent crime grades A- and property crime B+. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Grand Junction run from A+ to C, so check the map below.
B+
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 749 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
36% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Grand Junction as a whole, and 64% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Grand Junction scores 749.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its crime with the people, homes and cars there, on one national scale, from green for the least crime to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy shopping center can show red while the homes beside it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a strong connection. Compare high speed internet in Grand Junction, CO at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Grand Junction, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out in Grand Junction
Robberies are less common than the crime level suggests. Crime overall in Grand Junction runs 62% above the US rate, but robberies run 26% below it: 0.46 a year per 1,000 residents, against 0.62 nationally.
Thefts and reported rapes both run high. In Grand Junction, each runs at about double the US rate: 25.2 thefts and 0.81 reported rapes a year per 1,000 residents, against 13.1 and 0.38 nationally.
The safest and least safe parts of Grand Junction
Most of Grand Junction grades well: 89% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and the rest in areas graded C. Grades across Grand Junction run from A+ to C; 20% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
89%11%
A or B 89%C 11%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Within Grand Junction, the northwest side has the least crime and the center the most.
Is crime going up in Grand Junction?
Since 2019, reported violent crime in Grand Junction is up 46% and property crime is down 19%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 3.8 to 5.5 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 40 to 32 (US: 18). Neither changed much from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
Grand JunctionUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police department that serves Grand Junction. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Grand Junction
Violent, US
Property, Grand Junction
Property, US
2016
+39%
+4%
+29%
+15%
2017
+57%
+4%
+18%
+12%
2018
+16%
+0%
+12%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
+43%
+4%
+16%
-8%
2021
+52%
+6%
+11%
-10%
2022
+35%
+5%
-19%
-6%
2023
+34%
+2%
-19%
-7%
2024
+46%
-4%
-19%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Grand Junction
CrimeGrade™ estimates Grand Junction has about 60 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 62% more than the US as a whole and 27% more than Colorado.
Overall crime
Violent crime
Property crime
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. These figures include simple assaults and vandalism, which the FBI's violent and property crime rates leave out.
Theft is the most common crime in Grand Junction, about 42% of everything reported, but assault costs more, because each one does more harm.
Each CrimeGrade™ compares a crime with what it affects: people for assaults and robbery, homes for burglary, parked cars for vehicle theft. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Where and when crime happens in Grand Junction
Grand Junction has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
In Grand Junction, 52% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often in parking lots and garages: 38% of them, against 31% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (52%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Car theft
Homes (40%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (38%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Vandalism
Homes (39%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (45%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Aggravated assault
Homes (39%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
How Grand Junction compares with nearby cities
Grand Junction has the most crime of its 8 nearest cities.
Shops, parking lots and walkability in Grand Junction
Two things set Grand Junction apart: it has 17.6 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally, and 3.7 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally. Places like that tend to report more theft, and it runs high here.
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft.17.6 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 94% of US city residents
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.3.7 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 93% of US city residents
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more theft and assault. 76% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D+ (20 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 58% of US city residents
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JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.71 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 87% of US city residents
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft and robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Grand Junction: F (2 of 100).NoneUS: noneLower than for 84% of US city residents
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.3.6% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 80% of US city residents
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What crime costs Grand Junction
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Grand Junction about $1,516 a year per household, 26% more than the US figure of $1,205.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost comes to about $128 million a year, or $1,702 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$4.1 million
$54
Rape
$3.7 million
$49
Robbery
$1.1 million
$14
Assault
$15 million
$202
Burglary
$2.1 million
$28
Theft
$9.7 million
$130
Vehicle theft
$2.7 million
$36
Arson
$950,000
$13
Vandalism
$6.2 million
$82
Total
$46 million
$609
How CrimeGrade™ works
A CrimeGrade™ shows how much crime an area has compared with the rest of the country, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most. Every neighborhood in the US is graded on the same scale, so a B in Grand Junction means the same as a B anywhere else.
CrimeGrade™ starts from the crimes people report to police and measures each kind of crime against what it affects: people for assaults, homes for burglaries, parked cars for car thefts.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
Published research on what crime costs victims and communities
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
Schools in Grand Junction, CO average a SchoolGrade of B-: 41% of students test proficient, against 31% projected for schools like them. Overall, they greatly exceed expectations. See schools in Grand Junction on SchoolGrade
