Neighborhood profileUnited States/Colorado/Denver/Capitol Hill

Capitol Hill Denver Neighborhood Guide: Crime, Housing, Schools, And Trends

Capitol Hill 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
16,211
Capitol Hill covered by 1 underlying area.
Violent crime
16.1 / 1k
Violent crime has increased 1% since 2022-01-11.
Property crime
95.1 / 1k
Property crime has declined 9% since 2022-01-11.
Market rent
$1,389
Market rent has increased 12% since 2019. Rent here is ZIP-derived market context.
Signals

What Capitol Hill 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

$79,328 income with 24.2% owner occupancy

Momentum

15/100

6 tract model scores aggregated for Capitol Hill

Safety

50/100

24.2% owner occupancy with 9.8% poverty

Investor Upside

18/100

+6% rent growth with 4.3% yield proxy

Benchmarks

How Capitol Hill compares

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

Violent Crime

16.1 / 1k

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

Property Crime

95.1 / 1k

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

Market Rent (ZIP-derived)

$1,389

$1,936 city · $1,996 state

Permits 12M

59

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 Capitol Hill 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 Capitol Hill 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 $1,389 and market rent has increased 12% since 2019. This rent read is ZIP-derived market context. 59 in recent permits suggests current development activity is visible in the data.

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Why it reads this way

Violent crime in Capitol Hill is approximately 67% higher than the city benchmark. Median household income is $79,328. Retail mix currently shows 16.9% premium retail versus 0.6% value-oriented retail.

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Who this is for

Capitol Hill is easiest to interpret for households comparing pricing against local earning power. Property crime has declined 9% since 2022-01-11.