City Park, Denver, CO Violent Crime Rates and Maps

City Park is a neighborhood of 9,400 residents in Denver, close to downtown · Updated November 2026

How common is violent crime in City Park?

City Park grades C- for violent crime, with more of it than the neighborhoods where 90% of Americans live. Assaults make up 90% 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.

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Violent crime CrimeGrade™Safety score 314 of 1,000
More violent crime than nearly all US neighborhoods What this means

10% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than City Park as a whole, and 90% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. City Park scores 314.

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.

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Overall crimeSafety score 133 of 1,000Less safe than nearly all US neighborhoods
F
Property crimeSafety score 0 of 1,000More property crime than nearly all US neighborhoods

How it works


Violent crime map of City Park

Map of City Park shaded by violent crime CrimeGrade™, from green for the least crime to red for the most
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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 City Park, Denver, CO at ISP Reports.

Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in City Park 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 City Park

Aggravated assaults and robberies both run high. In City Park, each runs at more than triple the US rate: 13.9 aggravated assaults and 2.7 robberies a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.6 and 0.62 nationally.


Violent crime rates and types in City Park

CrimeGrade™ estimates City Park has about 46 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, about triple the rate for the US as a whole and about double the rate for 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 City Park, about 90% of the total.

CrimeCrimeGrade™Reported a yearPer 1,000 residentsUS per 1,000
MurderC20.160.05
RapeD+151.60.38
RobberyB+262.70.62
AssaultC-38941.412.3

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 City Park; 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.

CrimeMost often atBusiest time
RobberyStreets and sidewalks (36%)Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assaultHomes (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 City Park and nearby neighborhoods

City Park has less violent crime than 7 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.

Nearby neighborhoods

PlaceViolentOverallResidents
City ParkC-314D-9,400
Cheesman Park 1 mileC450F8,100
Whittier 1 mileF9F3,990
Skyland 1 mileF21F3,070
South Park Hill 2 milesB664C+9,730
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PlaceViolentOverallResidents
Capitol Hill 1 mileD+240F24,200
Cole 2 milesF71F4,270
Clayton 2 milesF0F3,930
Five Points 2 milesF5F25,700
Golden Triangle 2 milesF0F4,290
Alamo Placita 2 milesB669D15,000

Nearest first, with each place's distance from City Park. 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, City Park has more violent crime than 69% of them.

Neighborhoods of similar size and density

PlaceViolentOverallResidents
City ParkC-314D-9,400
Brookline Village Commercial District, Brookline, MAA+943A9,420
Glenwood, Glendale, CAA905A-9,450
University Of Texas, Austin, TXA868A-9,390
West University, Eugene, ORA-803C+9,440
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PlaceViolentOverallResidents
Black Rock, Bridgeport, CTB667B9,450
Downtown Troy, Troy, NYB659B-9,440
Day Square, Boston, MAB639B-9,350
Irvington, Portland, ORC+512D9,380
Ohio City-West Side, Cleveland, OHD157D-9,370
South Chicago, Chicago, ILF0F9,360

Nightlife, jobs and walkability in City Park

Among the traits that tend to go with violent crime, two set City Park apart: it has 3.0 bars and nightlife spots for every 1,000 residents, against 0.6 nationally, and 165 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole. It also combines many bars with dense blocks: places with both tend to report more assault and robbery than places with only one of them, and they run high here.

Bars and nightlifeBars, lounges, clubs and casinos. Places with more bars tend to report more assault and robbery.3.0 per 1,000 residentsUS: 0.6Higher than for 95% of residents of US city neighborhoods
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more robbery.165 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 94% 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.B+ (68 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 76% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery.88% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 72% 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 City Park

Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs City Park about $49 million a year, or $5,263 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $10 million, or $1,086 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. City Park is a good example: many people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks worse than its CrimeGrade™ suggests.

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
  • Population and housing figures from the US Census Bureau
  • Published research on what crime costs victims and communities
  • The Denver Police Department publishes its own crime data

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.

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