Crime in Manhattan, Kansas
Major crime in Manhattan is 21% below the U.S. rate per resident: 10% lower for persons crimes and 24% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 20.3% 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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Simple assault stands out most, at 1.5 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Manhattan 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 Manhattan
The middle half of Manhattan residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 36 and 75; the typical (median) resident's is 55. The citywide figure (79) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5041.3%
- 50–10043.7%
- 100–2007.0%
- 200–4004.1%
- 400+3.8%
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 20.3% 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.
Manhattan against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
329 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Manhattan; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Manhattan has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Wamego (14 mi), is 44% below Manhattan's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Manhattan
What are the most common crimes in Manhattan?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 275 a year), shoplifting (about 136 a year) and aggravated assault (about 128 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: 1.5 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. Manhattan's figures add up its 42 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Manhattan's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 18.6% 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: 54,840. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Manhattan, Kansas." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ks/manhattan
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Wamego14 mi44
- Junction City18 mi133
- Clay Center31 mi71
- Council Grove36 mi30
- Abilene38 mi56
- Marysville45 mi72
- Topeka49 mi221
- Holton50 mi70