Neighborhood profileUnited States/Colorado/Denver/Clayton

Clayton Denver Neighborhood Guide: Crime, Housing, Schools, And Trends

Clayton 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
4,066
Clayton covered by 1 underlying area.
Violent crime
13.3 / 1k
Violent crime has increased 8% since 2022-01-11.
Property crime
58.3 / 1k
Property crime has declined 16% since 2022-01-11.
Market rent
$1,953
Market rent has increased 11% since 2019. Rent here is ZIP-derived market context.
Signals

What Clayton 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

46/100

$74,417 income with 52.8% owner occupancy

Momentum

31/100

Staged ablation winner using pure housing

Safety

20/100

52.8% owner occupancy with 28.2% poverty

Investor Upside

17/100

+1% rent growth with 3.8% yield proxy

Benchmarks

How Clayton compares

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

Violent Crime

13.3 / 1k

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

Property Crime

58.3 / 1k

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

Market Rent (ZIP-derived)

$1,953

$1,936 city · $1,996 state

Permits 12M

38

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 Clayton 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 Clayton 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 $1,953 and market rent has increased 11% since 2019. This rent read is ZIP-derived market context. 38 in recent permits suggests current development activity is visible in the data.

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Why it reads this way

Violent crime in Clayton is approximately 38% higher than the city benchmark. Median household income is $74,417. Retail mix currently shows 16.1% premium retail versus 5.4% value-oriented retail.

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Who this is for

Clayton is easiest to interpret for households comparing pricing against local earning power. Property crime has declined 16% since 2022-01-11.