The 10 Safest Cities In Colorado For 2026

Lamar, located near the south east corner of Colorado, had the safest violent crime rate in Colorado which helped it to a first place overall finish.

Lamar is a Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Prowers County.

Interestingly, the city has a higher than average poverty rate and unemployment rate for the state, but it has not led to an increase in crime. It has, however, led to a lower cost of living, which means safety in this town is affordable.

Located just north of Denver, Milliken is an idyllic little town where security is kind of a given. Milliken has made some serious improvements in its safety standards in the past year, jumping up 14 spots to earn the #2 overall safety ranking this year.

Feel free to leave your valuables unattended and your doors unlocked in Milliken -- the town has the lowest rate of property crime in the state of Colorado, with a rate almost 5 times lower than the national average. And Milliken's not too shabby in terms of violent crime either, with only 3 reported cases in the last year of data.

There's not much to worry about in sunny Milliken. Only learning how to do Mile High Wakeboarding like a champ.

Much like Erie, Windsor is a super safe place in Colorado that has fallen a bit this year thanks to pesky up starts from smaller cities that hadn't previously submitted data to the FBI.

Located in the northern part of the same counties as basically every other city, Windsor had the sixth safest violent crime rate in the state.

The city makes appearances on both our best places to live and best places for families lists in Colorado.

Gypsum, set in Colorado's Eagle County, boasts a non-existent murder rate and minimal violent crime incidents, ranking 13th safest for violent crime and safest in property crime safety. With a history dating back to 1911 and rooted in its namesake mineral economy, the town's modest 9,101 residents enjoy a low overall crime per capita of 384/100k people, making it the sixth safest location in Colorado.

Positioned about a mile north of Denver, Severance has seen a population boom in recent decades. As the population of Colorado's largest city expanded, Severance turned from a tiny town on the fringe of the Pawnee National Grassland to the outer suburb of a thriving metropolis. From just over 100 residents in the early 1990s, the community now boasts 11,997 people.

And for big-city commuters, Severance provides an excellent place to set down roots. The area represents the number 7 safest spot in Colorado.

It had just 61 property crimes and 14 violent crimes over the course of year. Putting that in terms of population, that gives the community a per-capita crime rate of 625/100k people.

Frederick, the first place over 10,000 people on the list, has the eighth safest property crime rate and 12th safest violent crime rank.

The Town, located in Northern Colorado, also happens to be on of the richest cities in the state thanks to a median income over $90,00 and homes that cost over $261,000 on the median.

One could say the town is rich in money and poor in crime.

We've moved some barges in our day.

Well, maybe not in this Erie -- a town located near so many of the other towns on this list in North Central Colorado.

It had top ten finishes for both property and violent crime and also spots a hefty $110,000+ median household income. You read that correctly, income, not home price.

Eaton's population is booming -- up almost 20% this decade.

All those people are flocking here because the crime rate has been, and remains, so low. It ranks eighth safest for violent crime and 13th safest for property crime rates. That could be because basically everyone here has a job -- it has a staggeringly low 1.1% unemployment rate. Eaton is a Statutory Town in Weld County named after Benjamin Harrison Eaton, a pioneer of irrigation who played a leading role in transforming the arid prairie of the Great Plains east of Colorado's Front Range.