Bonner Springs, KS carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 15% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Bonner Springs, KS shows violent crime at 406.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,585.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 15% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
C safety grade
406.2/100K violent
1585.6/100K property
+15% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Bonner Springs, KS
Comparable rate records
Bonner Springs's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Kansas cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Bonner Springs's 406.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Arkansas City (401.7), Cherryvale (426.5), Larned (384.2), Merriam (435.4). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
Position in the state cohort
Bonner Springs reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Kansas cities
At 406.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Bonner Springs ranks 24 of 125 — above 101 of the 124 other Kansas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +114.1% against the cohort median of 189.7. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 20.4% of the 152 Part I offenses reported in Bonner Springs for 2024, against a median of 13.8% across comparable Kansas cities — a gap of 6.6 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 352.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 406.2 in 2024 (+15.4%). The highest observed value was 491.5 in 2022 and the lowest 223.7 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Bonner Springs's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Bonner Springs's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 15.6 Census sq mi, Bonner Springs logged 7.7 property and 2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Bonner Springs's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (66% of 152 offenses; mix index 4,704).
Violent offenses are 20% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (15.6 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+81.6%
223.7 → 406.2/100K
Property Crime Rate
-42.9%
2776 → 1585.6/100K
Property offenses lead Bonner Springs's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs KS
Property Crime
121
1585.6
2090
Larceny-Theft
100
1310.4
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
15
196.6
-
Burglary
6
78.6
-
Arson
1
13.1
-
Violent Crime
31
406.2
456.2
Aggravated Assault
24
314.5
-
Rape
5
65.5
-
Robbery
2
26.2
-
Murder
0
0
-
Bonner Springs Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Bonner Springs property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Bonner Springs Police Department
Reporting agency for Bonner Springs NIBRS-participating
Bonner Springs Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Bonner Springs's 152 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Similar-Size Cities in Kansas
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Kansas cities closest to Bonner Springs in population. Their populations run from 7,161 to 8,494, against 7,631 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Bonner Springs reported 31 violent crimes and 121 property crimes, for a total of 152 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Bonner Springs?
From 2023 to 2024, Bonner Springs's violent crime rate increased by 81.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 42.9%.
What is the most common crime in Bonner Springs?
The most common crime type in Bonner Springs is larceny-theft, accounting for 65.8% of all reported crimes (100 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Bonner Springs is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Bonner Springs, KS rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.