North Park Hill Crime Rate Trends — Denver
North Park Hill is the northern third of the broader Park Hill area, between East 38th Avenue and East 26th Avenue along Colorado Boulevard. Predominantly early-to-mid-20th-century single-family residential with a tree-lined grid of bungalows and four-square homes.
North Park Hill had a largely settled April 2026 — one below-trend signal and one zero-event signal across all tracked categories. Motor vehicle theft is the standout, running well below its multi-year baseline, while the rest of the property crime picture is mixed: two categories are up on a 12-month basis, four are down.
Motor vehicle theft sits at 39 incidents over the current 12 months against a baseline of 73.46, down 32.8% from the prior-year total of 58. Other larceny and aggravated assault have also pulled back sharply — down 34.7% and 31.2%, respectively — while theft from vehicle (up 22.0%, 61 vs. 50) and vandalism (up 18.4%, 45 vs. 38) are moving in the opposite direction. Everything else this month came in within normal range.
Notable signals 1
Motor Vehicle Theft
The past 12 months saw 39 incidents — about 47% below the 73 average from prior years.
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.
No sustained shifts surfaced this month.
What next month likely looks like
Forecasts trained through April 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 North Park Hill compares
Peer neighborhoods picked by closest 12-month motor vehicle theft 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 motor vehicle theft levels.”
Civic Center
40 incidents over the past 12 months — 1 above North Park Hill's 39.
Open page →Marston
38 incidents over the past 12 months — 1 below North Park Hill's 39.
Open page →Barnum
37 incidents over the past 12 months — 2 below North Park Hill's 39.
Open page →Recurring local terms (last 12 months)
Top terms in incident descriptions for North Park Hill, 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.