Crime in Prairie Village, Kansas
Major crime in Prairie Village is 56% below the U.S. rate per resident: 71% lower for persons crimes and 53% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.7% 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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Murder stands out most, at 23% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Prairie Village 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 Prairie Village
The middle half of Prairie Village residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 28 and 50; the typical (median) resident's is 36. The citywide figure (44) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5072.6%
- 50–10018.9%
- 100–2008.6%
- 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.
Lowest on Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 9.7% 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.
Prairie Village against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,641 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Prairie Village; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Prairie Village 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, Mission Hills (2 mi), is 34% above Prairie Village's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Prairie Village
What are the most common crimes in Prairie Village?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 48 a year), theft from vehicle (about 36 a year) and motor vehicle theft (about 30 a year). Compared with the U.S., murder stands out most: 23% above 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. Prairie Village's figures add up its 21 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Prairie Village's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 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: 22,921. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Prairie Village, Kansas." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ks/prairie-village
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Mission Hills2 mi59
- Fairway3 mi35
- Mission3 mi252
- Roeland Park3 mi138
- Merriam4 mi229
- Leawood5 mi62
- Overland Park6 mi96
- Lenexa8 mi67