Crime in Roeland Park, Kansas
Major crime in Roeland Park is 38% above the U.S. rate per resident: 15% lower for persons crimes and 50% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.5% 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 2.6 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Roeland 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 Roeland Park
The middle half of Roeland Park residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 98 and 145; the typical (median) resident's is 128.
- 0–5012.9%
- 50–10023.1%
- 100–20050.3%
- 200–40013.7%
- 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 weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.5% 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.
Roeland Park against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
306 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Roeland Park; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Roeland Park has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Fairway (1 mi), is 75% below Roeland Park's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Roeland Park
What are the most common crimes in Roeland Park?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 53 a year), other larceny (about 38 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 19 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 2.6 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. Roeland Park's figures add up its 7 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Roeland Park has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 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: 6,379. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Roeland Park, Kansas." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ks/roeland-park
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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