Crime & Safety in Westminster
Westminster's crime data reads consistently below the national and Colorado safety averages across both sources reviewed this session -- a real, disclosed concern rather than a marketing-friendly gloss, and a more one-directional pattern than Arvada's crime-data spread in this same batch.
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NeighborhoodScout cites an overall rate of 38 per 1,000 residents ('one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes'), with more than 92% of Colorado communities reading safer than Westminster by its methodology. CrimeGrade's separate methodology assigns an F overall grade, a combined rate of 56.98 per 1,000, and a 6th-percentile safety ranking.
Property crime runs the more acute concern by CrimeGrade's breakdown
CrimeGrade's breakdown places violent crime at the 22nd percentile (4.66 per 1,000) versus property crime at just the 5th percentile -- property crime is the sharper driver of Westminster's below-average overall safety reading by this methodology.
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.
Key takeaways
- NeighborhoodScout (38 per 1,000, worse than 92%+ of Colorado communities) and CrimeGrade (F grade, 6th-percentile safety) both read Westminster below the national and state safety averages.
- CrimeGrade's breakdown shows property crime (5th percentile) as the sharper driver of the below-average overall reading versus violent crime (22nd percentile).
- This is a more one-directional, consistently below-average pattern than the crime-data spread documented for Arvada in this same batch.
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