Neighborhood profileUnited States/Colorado/Aurora/Aurora Highlands

Aurora Highlands Aurora Neighborhood Guide: Crime, Housing, Schools, And Trends

Aurora Highlands is a neighborhood in Aurora, Colorado. This guide brings together violent crime, property crime, rent context, school links, development activity, nearby neighborhoods, and city comparisons in one local read.

Population
8,545
Aurora Highlands covered by 1 underlying area.
Violent crime
7.1 / 1k
Violent crime has declined 11% since 2021.
Property crime
27.5 / 1k
Property crime has declined 23% since 2021.
Market rent
$1,610
Market rent has increased 25% since 2019. Rent here is ZIP-derived market context.
Signals

What Aurora Highlands is signaling right now

Quality, momentum, safety, and upside indicators rendered as static SEO HTML with the same data source as the app route.

Quality

50/100

$94,310 income with 80.6% owner occupancy

Momentum

25/100

2 tract model scores aggregated for Aurora Highlands

Safety

50/100

80.6% owner occupancy with 9.7% poverty

Investor Upside

34/100

+6% rent growth with 4.4% yield proxy

Benchmarks

How Aurora Highlands compares

Neighborhood pages roll up the tract members inside Aurora Highlands, then combine that local footprint with city and state comparisons so the area can be read in context rather than in isolation.

Violent Crime

7.1 / 1k

7.8 / 1k city · 5.2 / 1k state · 4.0 / 1k national

Property Crime

27.5 / 1k

30.8 / 1k city · 31.3 / 1k state · 19.6 / 1k national

Market Rent (ZIP-derived)

$1,610

$1,851 city · $1,996 state

Permits 12M

0

0 city · 6,350 state

Research notes

How to read this page

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What this page measures

This page combines neighborhood-level crime, housing, development, school access, and nearby-place context so Aurora Highlands can be read as a full neighborhood, not just a single metric.

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How to use it

Start with the signal cards and benchmark table, then use the trend lines to separate steady-state conditions from a real change story before comparing Aurora Highlands with nearby neighborhoods.

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What can distort the read

Some large percentage changes come from unusually low starting values, partial source coverage, or neighborhood rollups with very different tract mixes over time. Use the benchmark table and linked pages for context.

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What is changing

Market rent is $1,610 and market rent has increased 25% since 2019. This rent read is ZIP-derived market context. 0 in recent permits suggests current development activity is visible in the data.

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Why it reads this way

Violent crime in Aurora Highlands is approximately 9% lower than the city benchmark. Median household income is $94,310. Retail mix currently shows 9.6% premium retail versus 7.3% value-oriented retail.

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Who this is for

Aurora Highlands is easiest to interpret for households comparing pricing against local earning power. Property crime has declined 23% since 2021.