Crime & Safety in Castle Rock
Castle Rock's crime data shows a genuine split between sources -- NeighborhoodScout frames it as safer than most comparably-sized cities specifically, while CrimeGrade's overall grade reads closer to Parker's than to Highlands Ranch's more favorable read.
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Learn moreNeighborhoodScout: higher than the national average overall, but safer than similarly-sized cities
NeighborhoodScout cites an overall crime rate of 13 crimes per 1,000 residents for Castle Rock -- "considerably higher than the national average across all communities" -- but explicitly frames Castle Rock as safer than most comparably-sized US cities specifically, the same all-communities-vs-similar-size-cities nuance documented for Kennesaw, GA elsewhere in this dataset. Its violent-crime rate is cited at an unusually low 0 per 1,000 (1-in-4,285 odds) -- an oddly precise, very low figure disclosed as-cited rather than smoothed into a nonzero estimate.
CrimeGrade: a D+ overall grade, closer to Parker's than Highlands Ranch's
CrimeGrade separately assigns Castle Rock an overall D+ grade (26th percentile, overall crime rate 34.02 per 1,000, property crime rate 21.92 per 1,000) -- a notably less favorable overall read than NeighborhoodScout's framing, and closer to Parker's own D+ (29th percentile) than to Highlands Ranch's more favorable C- (38th percentile).
Two sources, two different emphases
NeighborhoodScout's comparably-sized-cities framing and CrimeGrade's straight percentile ranking are measuring genuinely different things -- both are disclosed here by name rather than collapsed into one verdict, consistent with how this dataset handles similar crime-data splits elsewhere (see kennesaw-ga.js and cary-topics.js).
Check a specific address directly
Given this real, disclosed spread across sources, prospective buyers and renters should check a specific address directly with more than one crime-data source. Per site policy, no specific lower-rated area within Castle Rock is named here.
Key takeaways
- NeighborhoodScout cites an overall rate of 13/1,000 for Castle Rock ("considerably higher than the national average" across all communities), but frames it as safer than most similarly-sized US cities specifically.
- CrimeGrade gives Castle Rock an overall D+ grade (26th percentile) -- closer to Parker's D+ than to Highlands Ranch's more favorable C-.
- NeighborhoodScout's violent-crime rate for Castle Rock is cited at an unusually low 0/1,000 (1-in-4,285 odds) -- disclosed as-cited rather than smoothed into a nonzero estimate.
- Check a specific address directly with more than one crime-data source. No specific lower-rated area is named here per site policy.
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