The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Greeley, CO
Greeley is the ninth-largest city in Colorado, with 116,800 residents in Weld County · Updated November 2026
Is Greeley, CO safe?
Crime in Greeley is moderate, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of B. Most US neighborhoods have little crime: 75% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime than Greeley. Violent crime grades B and property crime B-. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Greeley run from A+ to F, so check the map below.
B
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 633 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
25% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Greeley as a whole, and 75% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Greeley scores 633.
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 Greeley, CO at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Greeley, 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 Greeley
Aggravated assaults run high for a B-graded city. Greeley has 5.7 aggravated assaults a year per 1,000 residents; for the typical resident of a B-graded US city, the figure is 3.1.
Car thefts happen at homes far more often than nationally. In Greeley, 74% of reported car thefts happen at homes, against 33% nationally.
The safest and least safe parts of Greeley
In Greeley, 53% of residents live in areas graded A or B, 31% in areas graded C and 16% in areas graded D or F. Grades across Greeley run from A+ to F; 7% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
53%31%16%
A or B 53%C 31%D or F 16%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Within Greeley, the northwest side has the least crime and the east side the most.
Is crime going up in Greeley?
Reported crime in Greeley has risen since 2019: violent crime is up 82% and property crime up 27%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 3.7 to 6.7 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 24 to 30 (US: 18). Neither changed much from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
GreeleyUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police department that serves Greeley. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Greeley
Violent, US
Property, Greeley
Property, US
2016
+23%
+4%
+32%
+15%
2017
+15%
+4%
+7%
+12%
2018
+9%
+0%
+7%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
+19%
+4%
+6%
-8%
2021
+51%
+6%
+19%
-10%
2022
+90%
+5%
+60%
-6%
2023
+98%
+2%
+39%
-7%
2024
+82%
-4%
+27%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Greeley
CrimeGrade™ estimates Greeley has about 59 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 57% more than the US as a whole and 23% 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 Greeley, about 37% 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 Greeley
Greeley has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
In Greeley, 57% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often at homes: 73% of them, against 34% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (57%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Homes (74%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Theft from cars
Homes (73%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (62%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (54%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (58%)
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; they are over one in five for burglary, theft from cars, vandalism, robbery, aggravated assault.
How Greeley compares with nearby cities
Greeley has the most crime of its 6 nearest cities.
Greeley looks like a typical city on the traits that tend to go with crime.
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 Greeley: D (14 of 100).NoneUS: noneLower than for 84% of US city residents
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.31% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 69% 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+ (22 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 65% of US city residents
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Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.2.0 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 63% of US city residents
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft.9.4 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Lower than for 59% 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.5.2% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 57% of US city residents
BestNeighborhood, a sister site of CrimeGrade™, ranks the neighborhoods of Greeley on shops, parks, home prices, getting around and more.
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 Greeley
Crime costs Greeley about $1,943 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, 61% more than the US figure of $1,205. The total is about $78 million a year.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost rises to about $238 million a year, or $2,039 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$9.6 million
$82
Rape
$3.1 million
$26
Robbery
$2.3 million
$20
Assault
$29 million
$249
Burglary
$3.6 million
$31
Theft
$13 million
$111
Vehicle theft
$9.3 million
$79
Arson
$670,000
$6
Vandalism
$7.9 million
$67
Total
$78 million
$670
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 Greeley 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 Greeley, CO average a SchoolGrade of D: 30% of students test proficient, against 26% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in Greeley on SchoolGrade
