Crime in Baxter Springs, Kansas
Major crime in Baxter Springs is 35% below the U.S. rate per resident: 6% lower for persons crimes and 42% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.0% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.
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Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 1.6 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Baxter Springs for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Baxter Springs
The middle half of Baxter Springs residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 50 and 88; the typical (median) resident's is 60.
- 0–5020.0%
- 50–10069.6%
- 100–20010.3%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weeknights and on weekend daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.0% in a year; across Kansas it fell 12.4%
Change in expected crimes, with Kansas as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Baxter Springs against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents
762 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Baxter Springs; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Baxter Springs has a higher major-crime index than 1 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Galena (6 mi), is 10% above Baxter Springs's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Baxter Springs
What are the most common crimes in Baxter Springs?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 15 a year), aggravated assault (about 11 a year) and burglary (about 7 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 1.6 times the U.S. rate per resident.
How we calculated this
Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Baxter Springs's figures add up its 5 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Baxter Springs has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 0.0% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
- Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
- Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
- Residents: 4,372. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Baxter Springs, Kansas." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ks/baxter-springs
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