Crime in Kansas City, Kansas
Major crime in Kansas City is 2.0 times the U.S. rate per resident: 2.5 times for persons crimes and 1.9 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 18.3% 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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Vandalism stands out most, at 3.4 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Kansas City 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 Kansas City
The middle half of Kansas City residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 104 and 209; the typical (median) resident's is 147. The citywide figure (202) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–502.1%
- 50–10020.3%
- 100–20049.0%
- 200–40024.9%
- 400+3.6%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 18.3% 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.
Kansas City against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
29 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Kansas City; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Kansas City has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Roeland Park (6 mi), is 32% below Kansas City's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Kansas City
What are the most common crimes in Kansas City?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 1,362 a year), aggravated assault (about 1,032 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 847 a year). Compared with the U.S., vandalism stands out most: 3.4 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. Kansas City's figures add up its 154 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Kansas City's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 98.9% 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: 159,801. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Kansas City, Kansas." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ks/kansas-city
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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