DENVER, COLORADO

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• The unemployment rate in Denver was 3.4 percent in February 2019, with approximately 14,000 people estimated to be unemployed.
• As of 2019, 11.7% of the residents in Denver, Colorado had an income below the poverty level.
• From 2017 to 2018, the number of food insecure children in Denver county dropped from 20,740 to 17,570 children.
• The Denver County Jail no longer makes automatic housing placements based on anatomy and instead allows transgender people to fill out a “statement of preference form,” including preferred name and pronouns. After booking, a review board—made up of jail staff members and a community member—makes a housing recommendation. In addition, transgender people are allowed private showers and can request to share cells with other transgender people as well as specify the gender of the officer who will search them if necessary.
• Denver homicides for April 2021(8) are up compared with March 2021 (6), and up this year over the same time period last year.
• As of April, Denver has had 23 homicides reported so far in 2021, an average of 7.2 per month / 0.2 per day.
• The most homicides any neighborhood in Denver has had in 2021 as of April is Gateway / Green Valley Ranch, with 3.
• The average number of homicides per neighborhood this year as of April 2021 is 0.29.

The total of all arrests/citations for youth age 10 through age 17 was 3,036 for 2018. Sixty-seven percent of boys were arrested or cited by Denver police compared to 33 percent of girls.

• The number of women in Colorado’s jails has increased more than 24-fold, from 78 in 1970 to 1,878 in 2015.
• The number of women in Colorado’s prisons has increased more than 28-fold, from 66 in 1978 to 1,899 in 2017.

In 2020, Colorado reported 11 mass shootings that killed six and injured 52. A year earlier, the state had four mass shootings that killed two and injured 20.

• 36.8% of Colorado women and 30.5% of Colorado men experience intimate partner physical violence, intimate partner sexual violence and/or intimate partner stalking in their lives.
• 32 Coloradans were killed by former or current intimate partners in 2018; almost 2/3 of those were killed using firearms.
• 15% of homicides in Colorado were committed by intimate partners.
• A 2019 survey of 88% of Colorado domestic violence programs found that on the day of the survey, participating programs reported serving 1,221 adults and children; on that same day, 269 needs were unmet due to lack of resources.

• In 2017, 25 percent (35,000) of Denver children lived in families where no parent had full-time, year-round employment.
• From 2011-2012, 60,000 children in Colorado experienced parental incarceration.