South Park Hill Crime Rate Trends — Denver
South Park Hill is the southern third of Park Hill, between East 26th and East 17th Avenues along Colorado Boulevard. A walkable grid of pre-war bungalows and Denver Squares, with the Park Hill Golf Course historic site (now redeveloping) on its northern edge.
Two categories moved in South Park Hill this August: a single-month below-trend signal in motor vehicle theft and a structural, multi-month shift in burglary. That's a narrow month by signal count, but the two moves point in the same direction, downward across property crime, and the burglary shift in particular reflects a pattern that has built over more than a year.
Burglary is the deeper story. The trailing 12-month total stands at 34 incidents against 85 in the prior 12 months, a 60.0% reduction that goes well beyond a quiet summer. Motor vehicle theft is down to 23 incidents over the current 12-month window, compared to 42 in the year before, a 45.2% reduction. Vandalism and theft from vehicle also pulled back year-over-year, while other larceny and robbery both rose, robbery to 16 incidents from 12, a 33.3% increase. Everything else in the tracked set was within normal range.
Notable signals 1
Motor Vehicle Theft
The past 12 months saw 23 incidents — about 67% below the 70 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.
- Burglary has reset to a lower baseline.
The trailing 12-month count is 34, down 60% from 85 the year before. If the trend holds another quarter, it will pull the multi-year baseline down.
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 South 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.”
Hilltop
23 incidents over the past 12 months — 0 below South Park Hill's 23.
Open page →Southmoor Park
23 incidents over the past 12 months — 0 below South Park Hill's 23.
Open page →University Park
23 incidents over the past 12 months — 0 below South Park Hill's 23.
Open page →Recurring local terms (last 12 months)
Top terms in incident descriptions for South 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.