Crime & Safety in Centennial
Centennial's two leading crime-data sources point in genuinely different directions -- NeighborhoodScout reads the city as comparatively safe overall, while CrimeGrade assigns a D grade and an 18th-percentile safety ranking -- a real, disclosed disagreement rather than a settled verdict.
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Learn moreNeighborhoodScout reads Centennial as comparatively safe, with one real caveat
NeighborhoodScout cites an overall crime rate of 24.93 per 1,000 versus a 33.37 national average, a violent-crime rate of 2.21 versus a 13.32 national average, and roughly 1-in-54 odds of victimization -- a genuinely favorable overall reading. The real caveat: its own property-crime rate (22.72 per 1,000) runs modestly ABOVE the 20.05 national average, a disclosed nuance within an otherwise favorable picture.
CrimeGrade's separate methodology reads Centennial less favorably
CrimeGrade assigns a D overall grade and an 18th-percentile safety ranking (safer than only 18% of cities by its methodology), with violent crime at the 44th percentile and property crime at the 17th percentile -- a genuinely different verdict than NeighborhoodScout's comparatively favorable overall reading.
No specific area is named as unsafe; confirm any address directly
Per site policy, no specific neighborhood is named as higher-risk here. A buyer or renter weighing crime data heavily should review both CrimeGrade's and NeighborhoodScout's current, address-level tools directly for a specific location, given how differently the two sources read this particular city.
Key takeaways
- NeighborhoodScout reads Centennial as comparatively safe overall (24.93 per 1,000 vs. a 33.37 national average), though its own property-crime rate runs above the national average.
- CrimeGrade's separate methodology assigns a D grade and 18th-percentile safety ranking -- a genuinely less favorable verdict.
- These two sources point in different directions here, more so than the magnitude-only disagreement documented for Arvada -- confirm a specific address directly with both.
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