Current Domestic Violence Statistics (Nationally and Locally)

National Statistics

• 85% of victims of domestic violence are women and 15% are men (1999)
  • Taken from: The Bureau of Justice Statistics: Special Report. Intimate Partner Violence and Age of Victim, 1993-1999.  Washington, D.C., October 2001 (http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/ipva99.pdf)
     
• 32% of all women killed were victims of intimate partner homicide (1999)
  • Taken from: The Bureau of Justice Statistics: Special Report. Intimate Partner Violence and Age of Victim, 1993-1999.  Washington, D.C., October 2001 (http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/ipva99.pdf)
     
• 4% of all men killed were victims of intimate partner homicide (1999)
  • Taken from: The Bureau of Justice Statistics: Special Report. Intimate Partner Violence and Age of Victim, 1993-1999.  Washington, D.C., October 2001(http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/ipva99.pdf)
     
• 8 million days of paid work are lost by victims of domestic violence, this is the equivalent of 32,114 full-time jobs each year
  • Taken from: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.  Costs of Intimate partner Violence Against Women in the United States.  Atlanta (GA): Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 2003 pg 19 (http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/pub-res/ipv_cost/IPVBook-Final-Feb18.pdf)
     
• $4.1 billion is the estimated annual cost of health care due to Domestic Violence
  • Taken from: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.  Costs of Intimate partner Violence Against Women in the United States.  Atlanta (GA): Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 2003 pg 30 (http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/pub-res/ipv_cost/IPVBook-Final-Feb18.pdf)
     

Colorado Statistics

• In 2003, 49 people died as a result of domestic violence, 3 were children.
  • Project Safeguard’s Fatality Review Committee 2003 Summary 

• In 2002, 66 people died as a result of domestic violence, 3 were children.
  • Project Safeguard’s Fatality Review Committee 2002 Summary 

• 45% of murdered women in Colorado are killed by their intimate partner (average for 1996-1999
  • Project Safeguard: “When Domestic Violence Kills: The Formation and Finding of the Denver Metro Domestic Violence Fatality Review Committee” pg 14 (http://www.projectsafeguard.net/fatalityreview.html)  

• 57% of Denver victims of domestic violence homicide were employed (Data collected from 1993-1998)
  • Project Safeguard: “When Domestic Violence Kills: The Formation and Finding of the Denver Metro Domestic Violence Fatality Review Committee” pg 20 (http://www.projectsafeguard.net/fatalityreview.html) 
     
• 22% of domestic crimes in Denver occurred in a public space.  Public spaces were the 2nd most common location, next to the home. (Data collected from 1993-1998)
  • Project Safeguard: “When Domestic Violence Kills: The Formation and Finding of the Denver Metro Domestic Violence Fatality Review Committee” pg 20 (http://www.projectsafeguard.net/fatalityreview.html)