Neighborhood profileUnited States/Colorado/Grand Junction/Mesa Gardens

Mesa Gardens Grand Junction Neighborhood Guide: Crime, Housing, Schools, And Trends

Mesa Gardens is a neighborhood in Grand Junction, 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
4,536
Mesa Gardens covered by 1 underlying area.
Violent crime
5.3 / 1k
Violent crime has declined 5% since 2021.
Property crime
32.7 / 1k
Property crime has declined 29% since 2021.
Market rent
$1,734
Market rent has increased 55% since 2020. Rent here is ZIP-derived market context.
Signals

What Mesa Gardens 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

27/100

$56,695 income with 48.4% owner occupancy

Momentum

98/100

Staged ablation winner using pure housing

Safety

28/100

48.4% owner occupancy with 18.7% poverty

Investor Upside

40/100

+30% rent growth with 5.6% yield proxy

Benchmarks

How Mesa Gardens compares

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

Violent Crime

5.3 / 1k

5.3 / 1k city · 5.2 / 1k state · 4.0 / 1k national

Property Crime

32.7 / 1k

32.7 / 1k city · 31.3 / 1k state · 19.6 / 1k national

Market Rent (ZIP-derived)

$1,734

$1,794 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 Mesa Gardens 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 Mesa Gardens 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 $1,734 and market rent has increased 55% since 2020. 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 Mesa Gardens is roughly in line with the city benchmark. Median household income is $56,695. Retail mix currently shows 10% premium retail versus 8.2% value-oriented retail.

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Who this is for

Mesa Gardens is easiest to interpret for households comparing pricing against local earning power. Property crime has declined 29% since 2021.