Night-time safety · Denver · data through October 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 19% to 52% 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 incidents after dark

Neighborhood	6pm–6am	Share	Index
1 CBD	2,071	41%	8/100
2 North Capitol Hill	1,701	39%	10/100
3 Capitol Hill	1,625	41%	11/100
4 Civic Center	1,624	41%	10/100
5 Union Station	1,395	42%	12/100
6 Five Points	1,127	42%	15/100
7 Cheesman Park	681	41%	21/100
8 City Park West	667	41%	21/100
9 East Colfax	537	37%	24/100
10 Lincoln Park	476	43%	30/100
11 Auraria	468	38%	28/100
12 West Colfax	432	44%	32/100
13 Speer	419	36%	29/100
14 Baker	367	35%	30/100
15 Cole	360	44%	36/100
16 Sun Valley	350	36%	32/100
17 Whittier	338	43%	37/100
18 Congress Park	327	46%	40/100
19 Jefferson Park	312	31%	33/100
20 Highland	309	35%	35/100
21 Hale	258	44%	45/100
22 Clayton	228	40%	44/100
23 Villa Park	227	44%	48/100
24 City Park	226	45%	48/100
25 Barnum	213	38%	44/100

Changes most after dark

Ranked by the share of reported incidents that fall between 6pm and 6am, against a Denver median of 41%. 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	52%	130	80/100
Regis	50%	136	78/100
Hilltop	50%	97	83/100
Berkeley	49%	385	55/100
Fort Logan	47%	47	91/100
Southmoor Park	47%	79	86/100
Congress Park	46%	703	40/100
Chaffee Park	46%	168	73/100
Washington Park	46%	182	72/100
Mar Lee	45%	263	65/100
City Park	45%	499	48/100
West Highland	45%	440	52/100

Least night-weighted

Where what gets reported is most concentrated in daylight hours.

Neighborhood	Night share	Incidents
University Hills	19%	491
Marston	26%	49
Hampden	31%	200
Cherry Creek	31%	655
Jefferson Park	31%	992
College View - South Platte	32%	362
Westwood	33%	519
Baker	35%	1,058

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 19% to 52% 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 2,071 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: 52% of what is reported there happens between 6pm and 6am, against a Denver median of 41%. 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.

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 the City of Denver Open Data Catalog) 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.