Crime in Kearney, Missouri
Major crime in Kearney is 69% below the U.S. rate per resident: 65% lower for persons crimes and 70% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.7% 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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Every crime type in Kearney is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Kearney for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Social disorder
How crime varies across Kearney
The middle half of Kearney residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 13 and 34; the typical (median) resident's is 31.
- 0–5085.1%
- 50–10014.9%
- 100–2000.0%
- 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.
Highest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.7% in a year; across Missouri it fell 11.3%
Change in expected crimes, with Missouri as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Kearney against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,934 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Kearney; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Kearney 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, Excelsior Springs (7 mi), is 3.2 times Kearney's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Kearney
What are the most common crimes in Kearney?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 40 a year), aggravated assault (about 9 a year) and burglary (about 5 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 8% below 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. Kearney's figures add up its 6 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Kearney'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: 12,528. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Kearney, Missouri." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mo/kearney
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Excelsior Springs7 mi102
- Liberty10 mi61
- Lawson10 mi29
- Smithville11 mi40
- Gladstone15 mi103
- Sugar Creek18 mi142
- Buckner18 mi74
- North Kansas City19 mi223