Southwest Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO Violent Crime Rates and Maps
Southwest Colorado Springs is a neighborhood of 12,200 residents in Colorado Springs, about 5 miles south of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Southwest Colorado Springs?
Violent crime in Southwest Colorado Springs sits near the national middle: an A, safer than the neighborhoods where 54% of Americans live. Assaults make up 84% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. Colorado Springs as a whole grades B- for violent crime.
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Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 874 of 1,000About as much violent crime as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
54% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Southwest Colorado Springs as a whole, and 46% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Southwest Colorado Springs scores 874.
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 Southwest Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Southwest 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 about violent crime in Southwest Colorado Springs
Simple assaults are uncommon. Southwest Colorado Springs has simple assaults at a small fraction of the US rate: 1.8 a year per 1,000 residents, against 9.7 nationally.
How Southwest Colorado Springs compares within Colorado Springs
Every part of Southwest Colorado Springs where people live grades A or B for violent crime on the national scale. Violent crime grades across Southwest Colorado Springs run from A+ to A-.
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Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Southwest Colorado Springs has less violent crime than 12 of the 16 neighborhoods in Colorado Springs. It covers much of the Central Colorado City and Southwest Colorado Springs areas.
Is violent crime going up in Colorado Springs?
Reported violent crime in Colorado Springs as a whole has risen 22% since 2019. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 5.8 to 7.1 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7). Violent crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Violent 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
2016
-14%
+4%
2017
-6%
+4%
2018
+2%
+0%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+5%
+4%
2021
+4%
+6%
2022
+10%
+5%
2023
+18%
+2%
2024
+22%
-4%
Violent crime rates and types in Southwest Colorado Springs
CrimeGrade™ estimates Southwest Colorado Springs has about 3.7 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 72% less than the US as a whole and 70% less than Colorado Springs 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 Southwest Colorado Springs, about 84% 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 Colorado Springs
The Colorado Springs Police Department polices Southwest Colorado Springs; these figures cover Colorado Springs as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Colorado Springs as a whole, 50% of aggravated assaults happen at a home, against 53% nationally. Robberies happen most often at stores and businesses: 52% of them.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
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.
Violent crime in Southwest Colorado Springs and nearby neighborhoods
Southwest Colorado Springs has the least violent crime of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Southwest Colorado Springs. 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, Southwest Colorado Springs is safer than 72% of them.
Density, walkability and transit in Southwest Colorado Springs
Among the traits that tend to go with violent crime, two set Southwest Colorado Springs apart: it has 4% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally, and a Walk Grade of D (12 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole. Places like that tend to report less robbery.
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery.4% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 96% 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. 84% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D (12 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 88% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Southwest Colorado Springs: F (3 of 100).1 trips an hourUS: noneLower than for 86% 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.23% where people liveUS: 21%Higher than for 83% 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 Southwest Colorado Springs
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Southwest Colorado Springs about $7.5 million a year, or $612 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $1.4 million, or $115 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.
