Safest 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 fewest 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 lowest reported volume first
Not the same Denver neighborhoods as the most dangerous neighborhoods in denver list.
- 1Wellshire100/100
- 2Country Club99/100
- 3Indian Creek99/100
- 4Auraria97/100
- 5Rosedale97/100
- 6Skyland97/100
- 7Belcaro96/100
- 8Whittier96/100
- 9Barnum West95/100
- 10Chaffee Park95/100
- 11City Park95/100
- 12Fort Logan95/100
- 13South Park Hill95/100
- 14Washington Park95/100
- 15Hilltop94/100
- 16North Park Hill94/100
- 17Platt Park94/100
- 18Southmoor Park94/100
- 19Clayton93/100
- 20Cory Merrill93/100
- 21Kennedy93/100
- 22Marston93/100
- 23Regis93/100
- 24Valverde93/100
- 25Washington Park West92/100
- 26Sun Valley91/100
- 27University91/100
- 28University Park91/100
- 29Barnum90/100
- 30Sloan Lake90/100
- 31Bear Valley89/100
- 32Berkeley89/100
- 33Cole89/100
- 34Harvey Park South89/100
- 35Jefferson Park89/100
- 36College View South Platte88/100
- 37Hale88/100
- 38Montclair88/100
- 39West Highland88/100
- 40Athmar Park87/100
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 →