Most Dangerous Neighborhoods in Denver (2024)
Denver's open crime data has no reliable neighborhood population figure, so these Denver neighborhoods are ranked by severity-weighted reported incident volume, not a per-person rate. The Denver neighborhoods at the top of this list have the most reported incidents relative to other Denver Denver neighborhoods.
Volume, not a safety rate. Denver neighborhood resident population is not reliably available for a per-100k rate, so no safety grade is published for any zone (see /crime-rate/methodology §6.6). The geographic unit is the Denver neighborhood (a policing/analysis boundary, not a resident-population neighborhood). relativeIndex ranks each zone by its VIOLENCE-WEIGHTED reported-incident volume (violent incidents weighted 3x property) against the other Denver zones — it is NOT population-adjusted and must not be read as a safety rate. Offenses are grouped into three coarse buckets (violent / property / other) via a keyword classifier.
Ranked highest reported volume first
Not the same Denver neighborhoods as the safest neighborhoods in denver list.
- 1Central Park0/100
- 2Five Points21/100
- 3Dia26/100
- 4Montbello54/100
- 5Gateway Green Valley Ranch54/100
- 6Capitol Hill55/100
- 7West Colfax64/100
- 8Lincoln Park65/100
- 9East Colfax67/100
- 10Hampden68/100
- 11Union Station70/100
- 12Cbd70/100
- 13Northeast Park Hill71/100
- 14Westwood76/100
- 15Washington Virginia Vale76/100
- 16Baker77/100
- 17North Capitol Hill78/100
- 18Hampden South78/100
- 19Cherry Creek78/100
- 20Windsor80/100
- 21Highland80/100
- 22Elyria Swansea80/100
- 23Civic Center80/100
- 24Speer81/100
- 25City Park West82/100
- 26Virginia Village83/100
- 27Villa Park83/100
- 28University Hills85/100
- 29Sunnyside85/100
- 30Globeville85/100
- 31Mar Lee86/100
- 32Lowry Field86/100
- 33Congress Park86/100
- 34Cheesman Park86/100
- 35Ruby Hill87/100
- 36Overland87/100
- 37Harvey Park87/100
- 38Goldsmith87/100
- 39Athmar Park87/100
- 40West Highland88/100
Showing the top 40 of 78 Denver neighborhoods.
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A high Crime Index score means lower reported crime relative to other US cities — it is not a guarantee of safety. Reported crime is not the same as actual crime. Research on the gap between crime that occurs and crime that gets reported to police — often called the "dark figure" of crime — estimates that roughly 40% of violent crime and about a third of property crime go unreported each year. Every index built on official statistics, including this one, necessarily undercounts real crime. That gap is exactly why homicide — the offense with the smallest dark figure — anchors the calculation instead of a more commonly reported but less reliable category like theft.
Scores on this page reflect FBI-reported data for 2024. See the full methodology →