Stapleton is a neighborhood of 32,300 residents in Denver, about 6 miles east of downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Stapleton in Denver safe?
With an overall CrimeGrade™ of B-, Stapleton has moderate crime by national standards. Most US neighborhoods have less: 79% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime. Violent crime grades B+ and property crime C-. Denver as a whole grades C-. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Stapleton run from A- to D-, so check the map below.
B-
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 571 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
21% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Stapleton as a whole, and 79% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Stapleton scores 571.
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 Stapleton, Denver, CO at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Stapleton in Denver, 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 Stapleton
Burglaries run high for a B-graded neighborhood. Stapleton has 6.7 burglaries a year per 1,000 residents; for the typical resident of a B-graded US neighborhood, the figure is 2.5.
Vehicle theft at more than triple the US rate. Stapleton has 13.3 car thefts a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 nationally.
How Stapleton compares within Denver
Low crime is the norm across Stapleton: 50% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and 12% in areas graded D or F. Grades across Stapleton run from A- to D-; every part of Stapleton has more crime than the typical US neighborhood.
50%38%12%
A or B 50%C 38%D or F 12%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Stapleton has less crime than 45 of the 53 neighborhoods in Denver. It covers much of the Gateway-Green Valley Ranch, Montebello, and Stapleton areas.
Is crime going up in Denver?
Reported crime in Denver as a whole has risen since 2019: violent crime is up 29% and property crime up 25%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 7.6 to 9.9 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 38 to 47 (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime fell 17%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
DenverUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Denver. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Denver
Violent, US
Property, Denver
Property, US
2016
-13%
+4%
-4%
+15%
2017
-10%
+4%
-2%
+12%
2018
-2%
+0%
-1%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
+17%
+4%
+27%
-8%
2021
+28%
+6%
+60%
-10%
2022
+40%
+5%
+68%
-6%
2023
+33%
+2%
+51%
-7%
2024
+29%
-4%
+25%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Stapleton
CrimeGrade™ estimates Stapleton has about 66 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 77% more than the US as a whole and 18% less than Denver 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 is the most common crime in Stapleton, about 40% of everything reported, but vehicle theft costs more, because each one does 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 Denver
The Denver Police Department polices Stapleton; these figures cover Denver as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Denver as a whole, 42% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often in parking lots and garages: 45% of them, against 31% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (42%)
Night (midnight to 6 am)
Car theft
Parking lots and garages (47%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (45%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Parking lots and garages (29%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Robbery
Streets and sidewalks (36%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (44%)
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 Stapleton compares with nearby neighborhoods
Stapleton has the least crime of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Parking lots, transit and walkability in Stapleton
Two things set Stapleton apart: it has 3.0 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally, and 53 buses and trains an hour at the evening rush, where most Americans have none nearby. It also combines many jobs with busy transit: places with both tend to report more theft and robbery than places with only one of them, and they run high here.
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.3.0 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 94% 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 Stapleton: C- (28 of 100).53 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 88% 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.C (36 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 52% 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.75 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 82% 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 Stapleton
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Stapleton about $2,490 a year per household, about double 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 $67 million a year, or $2,058 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 Stapleton 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 Stapleton, Denver, CO average a SchoolGrade of C: 38% of students test proficient, against 29% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in Stapleton on SchoolGrade
