Lowry Field Crime Rate Trends — Denver
Lowry Field is a master-planned mixed-use neighborhood in east Denver, built on the footprint of the former Lowry Air Force Base (closed 1994). Today it's a walkable mix of single-family homes, townhouses, retail at Lowry Town Center, and the Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum.
One category moved in Lowry Field in August 2026: other larceny, and it moved structurally. This is not a single noisy month but a sustained shift, a multi-month pattern separating the current 12-month period from the year before. Every other tracked category stayed within normal range.
Other larceny is up 34.3% against the prior 12 months, 188 incidents in the current period versus 140 in the year before. Theft from vehicle, motor vehicle theft, and burglary all ran below their prior-year totals, down 25.8%, 28.6%, and 10.9% respectively, giving the neighborhood a broadly mixed picture where property crime is declining in most categories even as other larceny climbs.
Notable signals 0
Nothing notable surfaced this month — every category sits within normal range against its baseline.
All categories, last 24 months
Each panel: recent monthly count vs. trailing 12-month context. MoM is the most recent month vs. the one before; 12mo YoY compares the trailing year to the year before that.
What's been quietly true for a year
Spikes get attention. Sustained shifts shape policy. These are multi-quarter patterns where the past 12-month total differs meaningfully from the year before — they often precede the baseline resetting.
- Other Larceny is climbing.
The trailing 12-month count is 188, up 34% from 140 the year before. If the trend holds another quarter, it will pull the multi-year baseline up.
What next month likely looks like
Forecasts trained through August 2026, with a likely range we're 95% confident the actual count will fall inside. Categories with too little recent volume — or violent categories at the neighborhood level — show no forecast and are surfaced through signals above instead. See the methodology page for the gating rules.
Aggravated Assault
Too low-volume per neighborhood for a reliable point forecast — see the rare-event and streak-break signals above instead.
Arson
Below the volume threshold for a reliable forecast — too few incidents in recent months to project from.
Burglary
Homicide
Too low-volume per neighborhood for a reliable point forecast — see the rare-event and streak-break signals above instead.
Motor Vehicle Theft
Other Larceny
Robbery
Too low-volume per neighborhood for a reliable point forecast — see the rare-event and streak-break signals above instead.
Theft from Vehicle
Vandalism
How Lowry Field compares
Peer neighborhoods picked by closest 12-month other larceny volume — a pragmatic v1 of peer matching. Demographic / housing-stock peer matching isn't built yet (we deliberately don't ingest income or race data alongside crime). Volume similarity has the right intuition: “neighborhoods experiencing comparable other larceny levels.”
Virginia Village
188 incidents over the past 12 months — 0 below Lowry Field's 188.
Open page →Montbello
192 incidents over the past 12 months — 4 above Lowry Field's 188.
Open page →Civic Center
180 incidents over the past 12 months — 8 below Lowry Field's 188.
Open page →Recurring local terms (last 12 months)
Top terms in incident descriptions for Lowry Field, excluding generic crime taxonomy. Useful as texture — what kinds of specifics show up here that don't show up elsewhere.
Hour-of-day, day-of-week, and seasonality
Distribution of bucketed incidents in this neighborhood across the full analysis window. Useful for routine context — shopping-strip thefts vs. late-night assaults read very differently when you can see when each typically happens.
How we built this page
Data → Anomalies → Forecast → Page
Incident data is pulled from Denver Open Data — DPD's NIBRS-coded crime offenses on ArcGIS Hub — mapped to 9 NIBRS-aligned categories (sexual assault is excluded because DPD redacts victim-bearing rows from the public feed). The feed publishes a 5-year rolling window so the analysis baseline starts at 2021-01. Aggregated to statistical neighborhood × category × month.Anomalies are surfaced using strict thresholds (~p < 0.01). Forecasts are Prophet with low-count gating; violent categories at the neighborhood level skip the forecast and show rare-event / streak signals instead.
Spike rule: 12-mo total > baseline mean + 2.5σ AND ≥ 20 incidents AND 6-mo confirms. Drop rule: 12-mo total < baseline mean − 2.5σ AND baseline mean ≥ 20. Rare event: any incident in the last 90 days, no prior comparable in ≥ 5 years.