Crime in Shaw Heights, Colorado
Major crime in Shaw Heights is 12% above the U.S. rate per resident: 29% higher for persons crimes and 8% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 12.9% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.
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Theft from vehicle and rape / sexual assault stand out most, at about 1.9 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Shaw Heights for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
Neighborhoods in Shaw Heights
Shaw Heights is made up of 3 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 120; the middle half of residents live where it is between 84 and 120.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10044.0%
- 100–20056.0%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 12.9% in a year; across Colorado it fell 9.1%
Change in expected crimes, with Colorado as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Shaw Heights against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
449 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Shaw Heights; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Shaw Heights has a lower major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Federal Heights (1 mi), is 29% above Shaw Heights's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Shaw Heights
What are the most common crimes in Shaw Heights?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are theft from vehicle (about 32 a year), other larceny (about 30 a year) and aggravated assault (about 19 a year). Compared with the U.S., theft from vehicle stands out most: 1.9 times the U.S. rate per resident.
How we calculated this
Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Shaw Heights's figures add up its 3 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Shaw Heights has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 100.0% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
- Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
- Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
- Residents: 6,240. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Shaw Heights, Colorado." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/co/shaw-heights
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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