Black Forest, Colorado Springs, CO Property Crime Rates and Maps
Black Forest is a neighborhood of 12,000 residents in Colorado Springs, about 15 miles northeast of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Black Forest?
Property crime is low in Black Forest: an A+, safer than the neighborhoods where 80% of Americans live. Theft makes up 55% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades A+, and vehicle theft grades A+. Colorado Springs as a whole grades C+ for property crime.
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Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 935 of 1,000Less property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
80% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Black Forest as a whole, and 20% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Black Forest scores 935.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more property crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its property crime with the homes, parked cars and people there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy shopping center can show red while the homes beside it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a strong connection. Compare high speed internet in Black Forest, Colorado Springs, CO at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Black Forest in Colorado Springs, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out about property crime in Black Forest
Thefts are uncommon. Black Forest has thefts at less than half the US rate: 5.6 a year per 1,000 residents, against 13.1 nationally.
How Black Forest compares within Colorado Springs
Every part of Black Forest where people live grades A or B for property crime on the national scale. Property crime grades across Black Forest run from A+ to A-.
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Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Black Forest has less property crime than 15 of the 16 neighborhoods in Colorado Springs. It covers much of the Powers area.
Is property crime going up in Colorado Springs?
Reported property crime in Colorado Springs as a whole has held about steady since 2019, within 7%. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 37 to 34 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). Property crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Property crime, change since 2019
Colorado SpringsUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Colorado Springs. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Colorado Springs
Property, US
2016
-3%
+15%
2017
-11%
+12%
2018
-7%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-8%
-8%
2021
-9%
-10%
2022
-8%
-6%
2023
-0%
-7%
2024
-7%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in Black Forest
CrimeGrade™ estimates Black Forest has about 10 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 58% less than the US as a whole and 77% less than Colorado Springs as a whole.
All property crime
Burglary
Vehicle theft
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Property crime here includes vandalism, which the FBI's property crime rate leaves out.
Theft is the most common property crime in Black Forest, about 55% of the total, followed by vandalism and burglary.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a property crime with what it affects: homes for burglary and arson, parked cars for vehicle theft, people and parking for theft, homes and businesses for vandalism. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Property crime in Black Forest and nearby neighborhoods
Black Forest has the least property crime of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Black Forest. Beside each property crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Black Forest is safer than 96% of them.
Walkability, night lighting and density in Black Forest
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Black Forest apart: it has a Walk Grade of F (0 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole, and 7% of the land where people live lit at night, against 78% nationally. Places like that tend to report less theft, and it runs low here.
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more theft. 100% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.F (0 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 99% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Lit at nightSatellite images show which neighborhoods are lit at night, a sign of busy streets and businesses. Brightly lit places tend to report more theft and vandalism.7% where people liveUS: 78%Lower than for 99% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more car theft.NoneUS: 24%Lower than for 99% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.1.6% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 96% of residents of US city neighborhoods
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What property crime costs Black Forest
Property crime costs Black Forest about $850,000 a year, or $70 per resident and about $195 per household: the value of what is stolen or damaged, plus the police, courts and prisons that respond.
Cost of property crime per resident, per year
How CrimeGrade™ works
The property crime CrimeGrade™ covers burglary, theft, car theft, arson and vandalism, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each property crime against what it affects: homes for burglary and arson, parked cars for car theft, and the people and parking around stores for theft.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
Published research on what crime costs victims and communities
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
