Night-time safety · Denver · data through August 2026

Is Denver safe at night?

40% of Denver's reported incidents happen between 6pm and 6am, and 21% of them fall between midnight and 6am. That share swings from 18% to 54% depending on which neighborhood you are in — which is the whole point: the question worth asking is not whether Denver is safe after dark, but where and by which route.

These figures describe when reported incidents happen, not how dangerous a street is. Somewhere with a night-time crowd reports more after dark because more people are there — that is a fact about footfall as much as about risk, and it is why the tables below show the count and the share side by side.

Most reported reported incidents after dark

Neighborhood	6pm–6am	Share	Index
1 CBD	1,592	41%	8/100
2 North Capitol Hill	1,317	39%	10/100
3 Capitol Hill	1,259	42%	11/100
4 Civic Center	1,240	41%	10/100
5 Union Station	1,070	42%	12/100
6 Five Points	855	41%	15/100
7 Cheesman Park	524	41%	21/100
8 City Park West	522	42%	21/100
9 Lincoln Park	389	43%	30/100
10 East Colfax	377	36%	25/100
11 Auraria	363	39%	28/100
12 Speer	336	37%	28/100
13 West Colfax	319	44%	33/100
14 Baker	296	35%	29/100
15 Congress Park	259	47%	39/100
16 Sun Valley	254	36%	33/100
17 Cole	250	41%	37/100
18 Whittier	243	40%	37/100
19 Highland	232	35%	36/100
20 Jefferson Park	228	31%	34/100
21 Hale	188	44%	46/100
22 City Park	182	48%	48/100
23 Villa Park	178	44%	48/100
24 Clayton	172	40%	45/100
25 Cherry Creek	162	31%	43/100

Changes most after dark

Ranked by the share of reported incidents that fall between 6pm and 6am, against a Denver median of 40%. A high share is not a high total — a quiet neighborhood whose few incidents mostly happen at night sits near the top — so the count is shown beside it.

Neighborhood	Night share	Incidents	Index
Belcaro	54%	114	77/100
Regis	53%	98	79/100
Fort Logan	50%	34	91/100
Berkeley	49%	292	55/100
City Park	48%	382	48/100
Harvey Park South	48%	124	74/100
Congress Park	47%	552	39/100
Northeast Park Hill	47%	189	64/100
Mar Lee	46%	209	64/100
Southmoor Park	46%	63	85/100
Hilltop	45%	78	83/100
West Highland	45%	336	52/100

Least night-weighted

Where what gets reported is most concentrated in daylight hours.

Neighborhood	Night share	Incidents
University Hills	18%	403
Hampden	29%	134
Westwood	29%	392
Cherry Creek	31%	526
Jefferson Park	31%	729
College View - South Platte	32%	264
Wellshire	32%	74
Windsor	34%	234

Common questions

Is Denver safe to walk at night?

40% of Denver's reported incidents happen between 6pm and 6am, and 21% fall in the small hours between midnight and 6am. That is a description of when incidents are reported, not a verdict on the city: the figure varies far more between neighborhoods than it does between cities, from 18% to 54% here. The useful question is which neighborhood and which route, not whether a whole city is safe.

Which neighborhood in Denver has the most reported crime at night?

CBD, with roughly 1,592 reported incidents between 6pm and 6am — 41% of its total. Somewhere busy usually tops this list because more people are out, so read it alongside the daytime picture on its own page rather than on its own.

Which neighborhood changes most after dark?

Belcaro is the most night-concentrated in Denver: 54% of what is reported there happens between 6pm and 6am, against a Denver median of 40%. A high share does not mean a high total — a quiet neighborhood whose few incidents mostly happen at night will rank high here — which is why the table shows the count beside it.

How does SafeRoute use this at night?

The app scores each walking route against the same Denver Police data, and can weight it toward the time you are actually walking rather than a flat all-day average. It also shows how much of each route runs on lit streets, and lets you share a walk and check in on arrival.

Methodology

Every incident reported to the Denver Police carries an occurrence time, which is bucketed into daytime (6am–6pm), evening (6pm–midnight) and the small hours (midnight–6am), split weekday against weekend, and weighted by severity so violence counts for more than shoplifting. A neighborhood's night share is the weighted proportion falling between 6pm and 6am; its night count is that share applied to its total. The city-wide chart weights each neighborhood by its own volume, so a busy centre is not averaged against a quiet suburb as though they were the same size.

Each offense reported to the Denver Police Department (via Denver Open Data) is weighted by severity — violence counts for more than shoplifting. For every neighborhood we sum weighted offenses within 1 km of its center, and normalize against citywide crime rates onto a 0–100 index, higher = safer. Boundaries are the City and County of Denver's official statistical neighborhoods. Denver's neighborhoods are relatively large, so 1 km circles overlap less than in denser cities and adjacent areas separate more cleanly. Time-of-day charts use DPD offense timestamps, severity-weighted. Pages regenerate as new data is published.