Neighborhood profileUnited States/Colorado/Denver/Bear Valley

Bear Valley Denver Neighborhood Guide: Crime, Housing, Schools, And Trends

Bear Valley is a neighborhood in Denver, 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
8,155
Bear Valley covered by 1 underlying area.
Violent crime
6.3 / 1k
Violent crime has increased 29% since 2022-01-11.
Property crime
32.2 / 1k
Property crime has declined 30% since 2022-01-11.
Market rent
$1,741
Market rent has declined 9% since 2019. Rent here is ZIP-derived market context.
Signals

What Bear Valley 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

$84,979 income with 65.5% owner occupancy

Momentum

59/100

2 tract model scores aggregated for Bear Valley

Safety

50/100

65.5% owner occupancy with 5.2% poverty

Investor Upside

27/100

+7% rent growth with 3.8% yield proxy

Benchmarks

How Bear Valley compares

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

Violent Crime

6.3 / 1k

9.6 / 1k city · 5.2 / 1k state · 4.0 / 1k national

Property Crime

32.2 / 1k

54.0 / 1k city · 31.3 / 1k state · 19.6 / 1k national

Market Rent (ZIP-derived)

$1,741

$1,936 city · $1,996 state

Permits 12M

26

6,350 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 Bear Valley 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 Bear Valley 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 $1,741 and market rent has declined 9% since 2019. This rent read is ZIP-derived market context. 26 in recent permits suggests current development activity is visible in the data.

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Why it reads this way

Violent crime in Bear Valley is approximately 35% lower than the city benchmark. Median household income is $84,979. Retail mix currently shows 10.4% premium retail versus 0% value-oriented retail.

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Who this is for

Bear Valley is easiest to interpret for households comparing pricing against local earning power. Property crime has declined 30% since 2022-01-11.