Neighborhood profileUnited States/Colorado/Fort Collins/Dakota Ridge

Dakota Ridge Fort Collins Neighborhood Guide: Crime, Housing, Schools, And Trends

Dakota Ridge is a neighborhood in Fort Collins, 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
5,023
Dakota Ridge covered by 1 underlying area.
Violent crime
2.6 / 1k
Violent crime has declined 13% since 2021.
Property crime
22.0 / 1k
Property crime has increased 5% since 2021.
Market rent
$1,775
Market rent has increased 36% since 2019. Rent here is ZIP-derived market context.
Signals

What Dakota Ridge 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

72/100

$105,578 income with 61.8% owner occupancy

Momentum

95/100

Staged ablation winner using pure housing

Safety

60/100

61.8% owner occupancy with 7.4% poverty

Investor Upside

52/100

+15% rent growth with 3.6% yield proxy

Benchmarks

How Dakota Ridge compares

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

Violent Crime

2.6 / 1k

2.6 / 1k city · 5.2 / 1k state · 4.0 / 1k national

Property Crime

22.0 / 1k

22.0 / 1k city · 31.3 / 1k state · 19.6 / 1k national

Market Rent (ZIP-derived)

$1,775

$2,015 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 Dakota Ridge 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 Dakota Ridge 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 $1,775 and market rent has increased 36% 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 Dakota Ridge is roughly in line with the city benchmark. Median household income is $105,578. Retail mix currently shows 17% premium retail versus 4.3% value-oriented retail.

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Who this is for

Dakota Ridge is easiest to interpret for households comparing pricing against local earning power. Property crime has increased 5% since 2021.