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Arrests in Colorado

Agencies in Colorado reported 188,117 arrests to the FBI in 2025, according to the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer.

Broken down here by the arrestee’s race, sex and age.

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An arrest is an event, not a person. One person arrested three times in a year is three arrests, so these are not counts of individuals and a rate is not the share of a population that was arrested.
Race is recorded by the arresting agency, not reported by the person arrested.
The FBI publishes no ethnicity field with these arrests, so no Hispanic or Latino figure can be derived from them. Hispanic arrestees are recorded under a race, which is why the population each rate divides by is that race across all origins rather than the non-Hispanic part of it.
The FBI’s “Multiple” category is an arresting officer’s classification of one person. The Census Bureau’s “two or more races” is what a person says about themselves. They are not the same population, so that row carries a count and no rate.
Reporting to the FBI is voluntary, and the FBI publishes no participating-agency figure with arrest data, so a change in an arrest count cannot be separated from a change in who reported. The size of that is measurable from its own state figures: national arrests rose 8.3% between 2022 and 2023, while NY alone rose 121.8% — 204,565 arrests from one state, against 539,374 nationally. Counts are not comparable across that year.
A rate is not published where fewer than 20 arrests lie behind it. That is the convention US federal vital statistics use for an unreliable rate, and it matters most in the smallest groups: nineteen arrests among a few hundred residents produces a figure that one or two arrests would move by a third. The count is always shown.
Comparing the composition of arrestees with the composition of a population assumes equal offending and equal likelihood of arrest across groups. This data supports neither assumption, and nothing here implies either.
344 arrests in 2025 carry no race at all — not even “unknown” — so the race rows total slightly less than the arrests recorded.

By race · 2025

Arrests per 100,000 residents of that group in Colorado, using Census Bureau estimates for the same year. The FBI’s legacy grouping, “Asian, Native Hawaiian, or Other Pacific Islander”, contains two of the rows below and is left out rather than counted twice.

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Arrests in Colorado by race, 2025
Race	Arrests	Share of arrests	Population	Per 100,000
White	157,248	83.6%	4,972,667	3,162
Black or African American	25,319	13.5%	294,603	8,594
American Indian or Alaska Native	3,156	1.7%	135,776	2,324
Asian	2,067	1.1%	257,440	803
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	328	0.2%	15,038	2,181
Unknown	0	0.0%	no denominator	—

By sex · 2025

135,785
Male: 4,496 per 100,000 residents; 52,332
Female: 1,749 per 100,000 residents

By age · 2025

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Arrests in Colorado by age band and sex, 2025
Age	Sex	Arrests	Per 100,000
Under 10	Female	1	—
Under 10	Male	1	—
Under 11	Female	0	—
Under 11	Male	0	—
10-12	Female	381	183
10-12	Male	645	310
11-12	Female	0	—
11-12	Male	0	—
13-14	Female	1,145	812
13-14	Male	1,863	1,321
15	Female	852	1,172
15	Male	1,558	2,143
16	Female	778	1,049
16	Male	1,779	2,399
17	Female	785	1,023
17	Male	1,790	2,334
18	Female	932	1,204
18	Male	2,354	3,041
19	Female	939	1,201
19	Male	2,496	3,194
20	Female	1,008	1,288
20	Male	2,413	3,084
21	Female	1,006	1,269
21	Male	2,601	3,281
22	Female	1,024	1,280
22	Male	2,687	3,358
23	Female	1,172	1,443
23	Male	2,857	3,517
24	Female	1,199	1,382
24	Male	3,126	3,604
25-29	Female	6,577	1,432
25-29	Male	17,062	3,716
30-34	Female	8,233	1,698
30-34	Male	21,509	4,436
35-39	Female	8,107	1,747
35-39	Male	20,179	4,348
40-44	Female	6,735	1,588
40-44	Male	17,036	4,018
45-49	Female	4,491	1,216
45-49	Male	11,645	3,152
50-54	Female	2,774	813
50-54	Male	7,971	2,337
55-59	Female	1,747	536
55-59	Male	6,180	1,896
60-64	Female	1,268	380
60-64	Male	4,431	1,328
65 and over	Female	1,178	114
65 and over	Male	3,602	350
Juvenile Other	Female	0	—
Juvenile Other	Male	0	—
Adult Other	Female	0	—
Adult Other	Male	0	—

Sources

FBI Crime Data Explorer — Arrests — Federal Bureau of Investigation, Criminal Justice Information Services Division · Public domain — U.S. Government work · retrieved September 19, 2026
Census Population Estimates — state characteristics — U.S. Census Bureau

Compiled automatically from FBI Crime Data Explorer — Arrests and Census Population Estimates — state characteristics by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built

Data retrieved September 19, 2026

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