South Westminster, Westminster, CO Violent Crime Rates and Maps
South Westminster is a neighborhood of 15,200 residents in Westminster, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in South Westminster?
Violent crime is high in South Westminster: a C+, 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. Westminster as a whole grades B+ for violent crime.
C+
Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 535 of 1,000More violent crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
16% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than South Westminster 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. South Westminster scores 535.
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 South Westminster, Westminster, CO at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in South Westminster in Westminster, 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 South Westminster
Robberies run high. South Westminster has robberies at more than double the US rate: 1.6 a year per 1,000 residents, against 0.62 nationally.
How South Westminster compares within Westminster
Low violent crime is the norm across South Westminster: 67% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and 6% in areas graded D or F. Violent crime grades across South Westminster run from A- to D+.
67%27%
A or B 67%C 27%D or F 6%
Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
South Westminster has less violent crime than 1 of the 5 neighborhoods in Westminster. It covers much of the South Westminster area.
Is violent crime going up in Westminster?
Reported violent crime in Westminster as a whole peaked in 2021 and has fallen 27% since, back near its 2019 level. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 2.8 to 2.9 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7). Violent crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
WestminsterUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Westminster. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Westminster
Violent, US
2016
-16%
+4%
2017
-11%
+4%
2018
+4%
+0%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+5%
+4%
2021
+45%
+6%
2022
+20%
+5%
2023
+18%
+2%
2024
+6%
-4%
Violent crime rates and types in South Westminster
CrimeGrade™ estimates South Westminster has about 17 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 28% more than the US as a whole and 44% more than Westminster 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 South Westminster, 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 Westminster
The Westminster Police Department polices South Westminster; these figures cover Westminster as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Westminster as a whole, 56% of aggravated assaults happen at a home, against 53% nationally. Robberies happen most often at stores and businesses: 59% of them.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Robbery
Stores and businesses (59%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (56%)
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 South Westminster and nearby neighborhoods
South Westminster has more violent crime than 7 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods. Scenic Heights and Lamar Heights Area have the least violent crime nearby.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from South Westminster. 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, South Westminster has more violent crime than 55% of them.
Transit, jobs and walkability in South Westminster
South Westminster looks like a typical neighborhood on the traits that tend to go with violent crime.
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for South Westminster: C- (28 of 100).4 trips an hourUS: noneLower than for 73% of residents of US city neighborhoods
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more robbery.49 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher 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 assault. 69% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.C- (26 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 62% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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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 66% 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 South Westminster
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs South Westminster about $30 million a year, or $1,944 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $6.3 million, or $412 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
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.
