Crime in Southeast Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO
Southeast Colorado Springs is a neighborhood of 48,200 residents in Colorado Springs, about 3 miles southeast of downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Southeast Colorado Springs in Colorado Springs safe?
Southeast Colorado Springs is among the higher-crime places in the US: an overall CrimeGrade™ of D-, with more crime than the neighborhoods where 92% of Americans live. Violent crime grades F and property crime D-. Colorado Springs as a whole grades B-. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Southeast Colorado Springs run from B to F, so check the map below.
D-
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 82 of 1,000Less safe than nearly all US neighborhoodsi What this means
8% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Southeast Colorado Springs as a whole, and 92% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Southeast Colorado Springs scores 82.
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 crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its crime with the people, homes and cars there, on one national scale, from green for the least crime 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 Southeast Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Southeast Colorado Springs 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 in Southeast Colorado Springs
Reported rape stands out among D-graded neighborhoods. For the typical resident of a D-graded US neighborhood, the figure is 0.48 reported rapes a year per 1,000 residents; Southeast Colorado Springs has 1.7.
Car thefts and aggravated assaults both run high. In Southeast Colorado Springs, each runs at more than triple the US rate: 12.3 car thefts and 11.0 aggravated assaults a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 and 2.6 nationally.
How Southeast Colorado Springs compares within Colorado Springs
High crime is widespread across Southeast Colorado Springs: 78% of residents live in areas graded D or F, and 8% in areas graded A or B. Grades across Southeast Colorado Springs run from B to F; every part of Southeast Colorado Springs has more crime than the typical US neighborhood.
14%78%
A or B 8%C 14%D or F 78%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Southeast Colorado Springs has less crime than 1 of the 16 neighborhoods in Colorado Springs. It covers much of the Southeast Colorado Springs area.
Is crime going up in Colorado Springs?
Since 2019, reported violent crime in Colorado Springs as a whole is up 22%, while property crime has held about steady. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 5.8 to 7.1 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 37 to 34 (US: 18). Neither changed much from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
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
Violent, Colorado Springs
Violent, US
Property, Colorado Springs
Property, US
2016
-14%
+4%
-3%
+15%
2017
-6%
+4%
-11%
+12%
2018
+2%
+0%
-7%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
+5%
+4%
-8%
-8%
2021
+4%
+6%
-9%
-10%
2022
+10%
+5%
-8%
-6%
2023
+18%
+2%
-0%
-7%
2024
+22%
-4%
-7%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Southeast Colorado Springs
CrimeGrade™ estimates Southeast Colorado Springs has about 100 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, more than double the rate for the US as a whole and 76% more than Colorado Springs as a whole.
Overall crime
Violent crime
Property crime
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. These figures include simple assaults and vandalism, which the FBI's violent and property crime rates leave out.
Theft makes up about 33% of crime reported in Southeast Colorado Springs. Assault is less common but costs more, because each one does far more harm.
Each CrimeGrade™ compares a crime with what it affects: people for assaults and robbery, homes for burglary, parked cars for vehicle theft. 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.
Where and when crime happens in Colorado Springs
The Colorado Springs Police Department polices Southeast Colorado Springs; these figures cover Colorado Springs as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Colorado Springs as a whole, 55% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often in parking lots and garages: 51% of them, against 31% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (55%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Parking lots and garages (45%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (51%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (34%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (52%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (50%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
How Southeast Colorado Springs compares with nearby neighborhoods
Of the 10 neighborhoods closest to Southeast Colorado Springs, 9 have less crime. Southwest Colorado Springs and Old Colorado City have the least.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Southeast Colorado Springs. Beside each overall CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Southeast Colorado Springs has more crime than 87% of them.
Parking lots, transit and walkability in Southeast Colorado Springs
Southeast Colorado Springs looks like a typical neighborhood on the traits that tend to go with crime.
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.2.2 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 87% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft and robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Southeast Colorado Springs: D+ (20 of 100).4 trips an hourUS: noneLower than for 69% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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 and assault. 70% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D+ (24 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 66% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.48 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 68% 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 crime costs Southeast Colorado Springs
Crime costs Southeast Colorado Springs about $3,414 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, about triple the US figure of $1,205.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost comes to about $256 million a year, or $5,309 per resident.
How CrimeGrade™ works
A CrimeGrade™ shows how much crime an area has compared with the rest of the country, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most. Every neighborhood in the US is graded on the same scale, so a B in Southeast Colorado Springs means the same as a B anywhere else.
CrimeGrade™ starts from the crimes people report to police and measures each kind of crime against what it affects: people for assaults, homes for burglaries, parked cars for car thefts.
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
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.
Schools in Southeast Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO average a SchoolGrade of D+: 32% of students test proficient, against 26% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in Southeast Colorado Springs on SchoolGrade
