Crime in Overland Park, Kansas
Major crime in Overland Park is about the U.S. rate per resident: 45% lower for persons crimes and about the same for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 1.7% 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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Shoplifting stands out most, at 1.6 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Overland Park 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 Overland Park
The middle half of Overland Park residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 31 and 80; the typical (median) resident's is 51. The citywide figure (96) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5048.5%
- 50–10032.4%
- 100–20013.4%
- 200–4003.3%
- 400+2.5%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest in the daytime
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime rose 1.7% 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.
Overland Park against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
163 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Overland Park; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Overland Park 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, Leawood (3 mi), is 35% below Overland Park's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Overland Park
What are the most common crimes in Overland Park?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 1,048 a year), other larceny (about 951 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 572 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting 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. Overland Park's figures add up its 150 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Overland Park's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 21.7% 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: 204,259. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Overland Park, Kansas." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ks/overland-park
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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