| Denver | |
| Pushpin Map: | South Africa Gauteng |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Denver's location in Gauteng |
| Pushpin Label: | Denver |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | South Africa |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Type2: | City |
| Subdivision Name1: | Gauteng |
| Subdivision Name2: | Johannesburg |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Total Km2: | 1.81 |
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 0.7 |
| Population Total: | 7257 |
| Population As Of: | 2011 |
| Population Density Km2: | 4009 |
| Population Density Sq Mi: | 10383.3 |
| Demographics Type1: | Races |
| Demographics1 Title1: | White |
| Demographics1 Info1: | 0.3% |
| Demographics1 Title2: | Asian |
| Demographics1 Info2: | 0.3% |
| Demographics1 Title3: | Cape Coloured |
| Demographics1 Info3: | 0.3% |
| Demographics1 Title4: | Black |
| Demographics1 Info4: | 97.9% |
| Demographics1 Title5: | Other |
| Demographics1 Info5: | 1.2% |
| Demographics Type2: | Languages |
| Demographics2 Title1: | Zulu |
| Demographics2 Info1: | 80.0% |
| Demographics2 Title2: | Southern Ndebele |
| Demographics2 Info2: | 3.4% |
| Demographics2 Title3: | Xhosa |
| Demographics2 Info3: | 2.5% |
| Demographics2 Title4: | English |
| Demographics2 Info4: | 2.3% |
| Demographics2 Title5: | Other |
| Demographics2 Info5: | 12.0% |
Denver is an industrial suburb in eastern Johannesburg, South Africa, on the railway to Germiston and Hoofrif Road, around 6 km east of City Hall. It borders Benrose to the west, Jeppestown and Malvern to the north, Cleveland to the east, and the François Oberholzer Freeway to the south. There is just a small portion of the suburb in the northwest that has residential zoning; otherwise, Denver consists of industrial land and squatter camps both in the west and up north, the latter largely on Hoofrif Road.
Denver was laid out on 25 ha of Doornfontein farm, like all the eastern suburbs of Johannesburg. Owner F.J. Bezuidenhout, for whom Bezuidenhout Valley is named, leased the area in 1903 to a J.H. Strutton to grow crops and garden. Denver was later purchased by a business, and in October 1898, it was zoned as a residential township. Before and after the Second Boer War, several American mining machinery firms built offices there, and it was named after Denver, capital of Colorado, as a result.
On 31 May 1900, Dr. Fritz Krause, the South African Republic's appointed mayor of Johannesburg, rode out to meet Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts to arrange the surrender of the main city into which they subsequently rode.
In the early years, the white population of the area was so large that from 1910 to 1933, there was a constituency in the Parliament of South Africa which located in the neighborhood.
The Denver Station stop on the Metrorail Gauteng is located at . It was the site of a train crash in 2015.[2]