Central East Denver, Denver, CO Violent Crime Rates and Maps
Central East Denver is a neighborhood of 57,200 residents in Denver, about 4 miles east of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Central East Denver?
Violent crime is high in Central East Denver: a B-, with more violent crime than the neighborhoods where 84% of Americans live. Assaults make up 86% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. Denver as a whole grades C for violent crime.
B-
Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 546 of 1,000More violent crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
16% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Central East Denver as a whole, and 84% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Central East Denver scores 546.
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 violent crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its violent crime with the people who spend time there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy downtown or nightlife strip can show red while the homes around it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a solid connection. Compare high speed internet in Central East Denver, Denver, CO at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Central East Denver 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 about violent crime in Central East Denver
Robbery at more than double the US rate. Central East Denver has 1.6 robberies a year per 1,000 residents, against 0.62 nationally.
How Central East Denver compares within Denver
In Central East Denver, 65% of residents live in areas graded A or B for violent crime, 17% in areas graded C and 18% in areas graded D or F. Violent crime grades across Central East Denver run from A to F.
65%17%18%
A or B 65%C 17%D or F 18%
Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Central East Denver has less violent crime than 34 of the 53 neighborhoods in Denver. It covers much of the Central East Denver area and the Capitol Hill, Alamo Placita, and Five Points areas.
Is violent crime going up in Denver?
Reported violent crime in Denver as a whole has risen 29% since 2019. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 7.6 to 9.9 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7). Violent crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Violent 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
2016
-13%
+4%
2017
-10%
+4%
2018
-2%
+0%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+17%
+4%
2021
+28%
+6%
2022
+40%
+5%
2023
+33%
+2%
2024
+29%
-4%
Violent crime rates and types in Central East Denver
CrimeGrade™ estimates Central East Denver has about 16 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 17% more than the US as a whole and 25% less than Denver as a whole.
All violent crime
Assaults
Robbery
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Violent crime here includes simple assaults, which the FBI's violent crime rate leaves out.
Assault is the most common violent crime in Central East Denver, about 86% of the total.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a violent crime with the people who spend time in an area, not only the people who live there. 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 violent crime happens in Denver
The Denver Police Department polices Central East Denver; these figures cover Denver as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Denver as a whole, 44% of aggravated assaults happen at a home, against 53% nationally. Robberies happen most often on streets and sidewalks: 36% of them.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
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.
Violent crime in Central East Denver and nearby neighborhoods
Central East Denver has less violent crime than 8 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods; only Alamo Placita and South Park Hill have less.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Central East Denver. Beside each violent crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Central East Denver has more violent crime than 62% of them.
Jobs, nightlife and walkability in Central East Denver
Central East Denver looks like a typical neighborhood on the traits that tend to go with violent crime.
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more robbery.48 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 68% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Bars and nightlifeBars, lounges, clubs and casinos. Places with more bars tend to report more assault and robbery.0.6 per 1,000 residentsUS: 0.6Higher than for 67% 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 assault.C+ (46 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 61% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Tree coverThe share of land under tree canopy where people live. Leafy neighborhoods tend to report less robbery.14% where people liveUS: 21%Higher than for 64% 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 violent crime costs Central East Denver
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Central East Denver about $109 million a year, or $1,908 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $23 million, or $398 per resident.
Billed cost of violent crime per resident, per year
How CrimeGrade™ works
The violent crime CrimeGrade™ covers murder, rape, robbery and assault, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each violent crime against the people who spend time in an area, so a busy downtown is graded on its workers and visitors as well as its residents.
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.
