Crime rate & statistics
Kansas City Crime Rate & Safety Statistics
Kansas City measured against national benchmarks and translated into understandable odds.
Key indices
Kansas City crime at a glance
Index values are scaled so that 100 equals the U.S. average.
Your odds
Estimated victimization risk
Calibrated against national benchmark rates and expressed as everyday odds.
Trend
Is crime rising or falling in Kansas City?
Reported incidents per month over the most recent year of data.
Context
How to read these numbers
Kansas City's violent-crime rate runs well above the national average, and that figure is the city's defining safety challenge. The weight of it falls on the East Side; in the southern neighborhoods and the Northland, the lived experience is far closer to a typical Midwestern suburb. Property crime is more evenly distributed but still elevated overall.
We map Kansas City's crime indices onto estimated rates per 100,000 residents using national benchmark rates, then express them as plain odds like an annual “1 in N” chance. The index is anchored so 100 represents the national average, and each area earns an A-to-F grade from a curve calibrated across U.S. cities, keeping comparisons consistent from one place to another.