The Denver Going-Out Index

Where Denver goes out

The neighborhoods with the most curated going-out spots. LoDo leads the city by a wide margin; the Highlands and the central-east neighborhoods follow.

Denver's best-rated neighborhoods

Share of each neighborhood's venues holding a 4.5-star-or-higher Google rating (neighborhoods with 15+ rated venues). By this measure Denver's highest-quality night out isn't downtown — it's in Capitol Hill and South Broadway.

Cheapest vs. priciest neighborhoods

Average price tier on a 1–4 ($–$$$$) scale, for neighborhoods with 15+ priced venues.

Priciest:

• Cherry Creek — avg 2.07 on a 1–4 $ scale (55 priced venues)
• LoDo — avg 2.05 on a 1–4 $ scale (176 priced venues)
• RiNo — avg 1.99 on a 1–4 $ scale (70 priced venues)
• Highlands — avg 1.95 on a 1–4 $ scale (98 priced venues)

Most affordable:

• Baker — avg 1.63 on a 1–4 $ scale (32 priced venues)
• Lakewood — avg 1.68 on a 1–4 $ scale (34 priced venues)
• Englewood — avg 1.68 on a 1–4 $ scale (25 priced venues)
• Congress Park — avg 1.72 on a 1–4 $ scale (86 priced venues)

How Denver plays

Bar-game amenities across the city — pool tables lead, with trivia nights and barcades close behind.

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Most common kinds of venue

Every figure here is computed directly from Hit the Town's cleaned dataset of 1520 Denver-area venues. Ratings are real Google ratings; neighborhood, price, dwell, and amenity figures come from our venue records. How we source and rank venues →