Neighborhood profileUnited States/Colorado/Colorado Springs/Fairfax

Fairfax Colorado Springs Neighborhood Guide: Crime, Housing, Schools, And Trends

Fairfax is a neighborhood in Colorado Springs, 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
4,925
Fairfax covered by 1 underlying area.
Violent crime
1.4 / 1k
Violent crime moved up by 1.2 / 1k from 0.2 / 1k in 2013-01-13 to 1.4 / 1k in 2026-05-13. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage.
Property crime
14.6 / 1k
Property crime moved up by 14.0 / 1k from 0.6 / 1k in 2013-01-13 to 14.6 / 1k in 2026-05-13. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage.
Market rent
$1,947
Market rent has increased 31% since 2019. Rent here is ZIP-derived market context.
Signals

What Fairfax 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

85/100

$133,036 income with 79% owner occupancy

Momentum

36/100

Staged ablation winner using pure housing

Safety

67/100

79% owner occupancy with 4.2% poverty

Investor Upside

47/100

+9% rent growth with 4.3% yield proxy

Benchmarks

How Fairfax compares

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

Violent Crime

1.4 / 1k

8.9 / 1k city · 5.2 / 1k state · 4.0 / 1k national

Property Crime

14.6 / 1k

31.0 / 1k city · 31.3 / 1k state · 19.6 / 1k national

Market Rent (ZIP-derived)

$1,947

$1,666 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 Fairfax 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 Fairfax 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 $1,947 and market rent has increased 31% 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 Fairfax is approximately 84% lower than the city benchmark. Median household income is $133,036. Retail mix currently shows 10.2% premium retail versus 0% value-oriented retail.

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Who this is for

Fairfax is easiest to interpret for households comparing pricing against local earning power. Property crime moved up by 14 from 1 in 2013-01-13 to 15 in 2026-05-13. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage.