Ranking Denver suburbs, best to worst (Highlands Ranch, Littleton: crimes, neighborhoods, income)

[SkyDog77]

Mine are:

1 Federal Heights
2 Commerce City
3 Sherrelwood, Derby, Welby
4 Sheridan
5 Brighton
6 Wheat Ridge
7 Golden
8 Englewood
9 Aurora
10 Thornton
11 Northglenn
12 Columbine, Ken Caryl, Bow Mar
13 Westminster
14 Arvada
15 Broomfield
16 Lakewood
17 Highlands Ranch
18 Greenwood Village
19 Centennial
20 Parker
21 Littleton
22 Castle Rock

[Hschlick84]

lol, I see what you did there.

[denverian]

The only place I'd live outside the city of Denver is Boulder. Otherwise, the entire state is off my list.

[SkyDog77]

Originally Posted by Hschlick84

lol, I see what you did there.

Originally Posted by denverian

The only place I'd live outside the city of Denver is Boulder. Otherwise, the entire state is off my list.

There are a lot of places I could live in this state if I didn't need to be so close to DIA, but Front Range I could do old Golden and Boulder. Wouldn't care much to live in any other suburbs.

[Dreaming of Hawaii]

Originally Posted by SkyDog77

There are a lot of places I could live in this state if I didn't need to be so close to DIA, but Front Range I could do old Golden and Boulder. Wouldn't care much to live in any other suburbs.

I'd like to have the money to live in Cherry Hills Village.

[SkyDog77]

Originally Posted by Dreaming of Hawaii

I'd like to have the money to live in Cherry Hills Village.

I'd rather be in Hawaii and BV.

I could sell my Wash Park house and live in Cherry Hills. It just doesn't appeal to me.

[katharsis]

Generally speaking -- there are MANY exceptions -- I would say that the southwestern suburbs are the best and the northeastern suburbs are the worst if one is looking for middle-class to affluent neighborhoods.

I really like my Columbine (bordering on Ken Caryl) neighborhood, but then I do realize that "Brady Bunch suburbia" is not to everyone's liking.

[CheyJeff51]

1. Montbello, Concord, Gateway, Greenvalley Ranch (NE Denver)

At first glance, these far northeast Denver neighborhoods look like normal middle class suburban areas. But on close inspection (Use Google Street View) you can see that this is a troubled area.

Many of the houses have bars on all of the windows and a large number of homes are not kept up at all. The area has very high crime much of gang related. There are shootings and murders on a consistant basis. The schools are some of the worst in the state. Many of the homes are rentals with Section 8 tenants.

I would not recommend this part of Denver, the reason the housing prices are lower here is because it is not a safe area and there is high gang activity.

2. Stapleton

This newly redeveloped area of the former Stapleton International airport is located in the Northeast section of the city and it is also plagued with crime and gang activity.

3. North Aurora

My advise to anyone is to stay south of Iliff Avenue if you looking in Aurora, crime and gang activity is high in the north end of the city.

[Traveler1026]

Originally Posted by CheyJeff51

1. Montbello, Concord, Gateway, Greenvalley Ranch (NE Denver)

At first glance, these far northeast Denver neighborhoods look like normal middle class suburban areas. But on close inspection (Use Google Street View) you can see that this is a troubled area.

Many of the houses have bars on all of the windows and a large number of homes are not kept up at all. The area has very high crime much of gang related. There are shootings and murders on a consistant basis. The schools are some of the worst in the state. Many of the homes are rentals with Section 8 tenants.

I would not recommend this part of Denver, the reason the housing prices are lower here is because it is not a safe area and there is high gang activity.

2. Stapleton

This newly redeveloped area of the former Stapleton International airport is located in the Northeast section of the city and it is also plagued with crime and gang activity.

3. North Aurora

My advise to anyone is to stay south of Iliff Avenue if you looking in Aurora, crime and gang activity is high in the north end of the city.

Stapleton is plagued with crime and gang activity??? Seriously???

[LHS79]

Originally Posted by Traveler1026

Stapleton is plagued with crime and gang activity??? Seriously???

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