Crime in Parsons, Kansas
Major crime in Parsons is 1.8 times the U.S. rate per resident: 2.5 times for persons crimes and 1.7 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.4% 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, intimidation and drugs and alcohol stand out most, at about 3.1 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Parsons 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 Parsons
The middle half of Parsons residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 109 and 257; the typical (median) resident's is 163.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10023.7%
- 100–20031.4%
- 200–40044.9%
- 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
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.4% 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.
Parsons against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
158 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Parsons; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Parsons has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Neodesha (23 mi), is 68% below Parsons's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Parsons
What are the most common crimes in Parsons?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 95 a year), other larceny (about 76 a year) and aggravated assault (about 72 a year). Compared with the U.S., vandalism stands out most: 3.1 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. Parsons's figures add up its 10 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Parsons has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 17.3% 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: 10,761. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Parsons, Kansas." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ks/parsons
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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- Chanute26 mi108
- Independence26 mi138
- Columbus26 mi82
- Girard26 mi105
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