Crime & Safety in Lakewood
Lakewood's crime data shows a real, sharply disclosed disagreement across sources -- NeighborhoodScout's high overall crime-rate figure reads almost opposite to CrimeGrade's B grade and "32% below national average" framing -- a genuine split worth understanding by source rather than resolving into one verdict.
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Learn moreNeighborhoodScout: a high overall rate
NeighborhoodScout cites Lakewood's overall crime rate at 58 per 1,000 residents -- describing it as "one of the highest crime rates in America" across all communities, with a 1-in-17 chance of victimization for violent or property crime combined.
CrimeGrade/DoorProfit: a genuinely opposite framing
DoorProfit/CrimeGrade instead cites an overall B grade for Lakewood in 2026, describing it as among the safer mid-sized Colorado cities, with an overall crime rate estimated 32% BELOW the national average -- a real, meaningfully different read from NeighborhoodScout's framing, not a minor variation. CrimeGrade's own narrower violent-crime-specific figure runs 5.547 per 1,000.
A third source lands closer to NeighborhoodScout's framing
Nextdoor cites an overall crime rate of 62.48 per 1,000 for Lakewood against a national average of 33.37 -- closer in spirit to NeighborhoodScout's higher framing than to CrimeGrade's more favorable read, adding a real, disclosed third data point to this genuine cross-source disagreement.
Check a specific address and neighborhood directly
Given this genuine, sharp disagreement across three named sources, prospective buyers and renters should check a specific address directly with more than one crime-data source rather than relying on any single citywide figure. Green Mountain and Bear Creek are cited in general coverage as lower-crime areas; no specific lower-rated area is named here per site policy.
Key takeaways
- NeighborhoodScout cites Lakewood's overall crime rate at 58/1,000 -- "one of the highest in America" -- while CrimeGrade/DoorProfit cites an overall B grade and a rate 32% BELOW the national average, a genuinely opposite framing.
- Nextdoor's separately cited overall rate (62.48/1,000 vs. a 33.37 national average) lands closer to NeighborhoodScout's higher framing, adding a real third data point to this disagreement.
- CrimeGrade's narrower violent-crime-specific figure runs 5.547/1,000 -- a different measure from the overall-rate citations above.
- Given this real, sharp cross-source disagreement, check a specific address directly with more than one source. Green Mountain and Bear Creek are cited generally as lower-crime areas; no specific lower-rated area is named here per site policy.
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