Villa Park Crime Rate Trends — Denver
Villa Park is a west-Denver neighborhood between West Colfax and West 6th Avenue, organized around Villa Park itself. Predominantly mid-century single-family residential bordered by Lakewood at Sheridan Boulevard.
Six categories moved in Villa Park this June — three one-month below-trend signals and three sustained multi-month structural shifts. The overall shape is broadly downward across property crime, with no spikes and no rare-event signals anywhere in the mix.
Motor vehicle theft leads the signals: 57 incidents over the current 12 months against a baseline of 135.6, and down 46.7% against the prior 12-month total of 107. Theft from vehicle and aggravated assault also ran below trend — theft from vehicle is down 39.0% year-over-year (50 vs. 82), and aggravated assault is down 32.4% (25 vs. 37). Robbery is the one category moving the other direction, up 83.3% over 12 months, though on small absolute counts (11 vs. 6), and it did not register among the top signals this month.
Notable signals 3
Motor Vehicle Theft
The past 12 months saw 57 incidents — about 58% below the 136 average from prior years.
Theft from Vehicle
The past 12 months saw 50 incidents — about 53% below the 107 average from prior years.
Aggravated Assault
The past 12 months saw 25 incidents — about 42% below the 43 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.
- Motor Vehicle Theft has reset to a lower baseline.
The trailing 12-month count is 57, down 47% from 107 the year before. If the trend holds another quarter, it will pull the multi-year baseline down.
- Burglary has reset to a lower baseline.
The trailing 12-month count is 38, down 52% from 79 the year before. If the trend holds another quarter, it will pull the multi-year baseline down.
- Theft from Vehicle has reset to a lower baseline.
The trailing 12-month count is 50, down 39% from 82 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 June 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 Villa Park 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.”
Harvey Park South
57 incidents over the past 12 months — 0 below Villa Park's 57.
Open page →Harvey Park
58 incidents over the past 12 months — 1 above Villa Park's 57.
Open page →Cheesman Park
55 incidents over the past 12 months — 2 below Villa Park's 57.
Open page →Recurring local terms (last 12 months)
Top terms in incident descriptions for Villa Park, 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.