Neighborhood profileUnited States/Colorado/Aurora/Sterling Hills

Sterling Hills Aurora Neighborhood Guide: Crime, Housing, Schools, And Trends

Sterling Hills 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
7,443
Sterling Hills covered by 1 underlying area.
Violent crime
8.2 / 1k
Violent crime has declined 9% since 2021.
Property crime
31.7 / 1k
Property crime has declined 21% since 2021.
Market rent
$2,073
Market rent has increased 25% since 2019. Rent here is ZIP-derived market context.
Signals

What Sterling Hills 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

47/100

$93,782 income with 64.9% owner occupancy

Momentum

49/100

Staged ablation winner using pure housing

Safety

34/100

64.9% owner occupancy with 8.3% poverty

Investor Upside

12/100

-1% rent growth with 4.8% yield proxy

Benchmarks

How Sterling Hills compares

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

Violent Crime

8.2 / 1k

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

Property Crime

31.7 / 1k

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

Market Rent (ZIP-derived)

$2,073

$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 Sterling Hills 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 Sterling Hills 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 $2,073 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 Sterling Hills is approximately 6% higher than the city benchmark. Median household income is $93,782. Retail mix currently shows 6.7% premium retail versus 20% value-oriented retail.

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Who this is for

Sterling Hills is easiest to interpret for households comparing pricing against local earning power. Property crime has declined 21% since 2021.