Burlington, KS has a B safety grade (72/100) with a violent crime rate of 233 per 100,000, 34% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Burlington is a small municipal reporter (2,579 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with KS and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Burlington, KS carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 34% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Burlington, KS shows violent crime at 232.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 581.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 34% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Burlington reported 6 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 2,579. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 553.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 232.6 in 2024 (-58.0%). The highest observed value was 553.4 in 2020 and the lowest 154.1 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Burlington's 232.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Colby (233.1), Hays (233.2), Baxter Springs (236.0), Goodland (227.8). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 28.6% of the 21 Part I offenses reported in Burlington for 2024, against a median of 13.8% across comparable Kansas cities — a gap of 14.8 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 93.3% of reported property offenses in Burlington, against a cohort median of 76.7%. The remainder is burglary (1) and motor vehicle theft (0). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 232.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Burlington ranks 52 of 125 — above 73 of the 124 other Kansas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +22.6% 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.
Property counts dominate Burlington'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.
Based on 6 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,579. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
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.
Across 2.3 Census sq mi, Burlington logged 6.7 property and 2.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Burlington's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (67% of 21 offenses; mix index 5,283).
Violent offenses are 29% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Burlington offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2.3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 15 | 581.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 14 | 542.8 |
| Burglary | 1 | 38.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 6 | 232.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 6 | 232.6 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 2,530 | 553.4 | 1304.3 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 2,533 | 236.9 | 1105.4 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 2,637 | 265.5 | 1441 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 2,596 | 154.1 | 1617.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 2,579 | 232.6 | 581.6 |
Burlington Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Burlington's 21 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Kansas cities closest to Burlington in population. Their populations run from 2,285 to 2,856, against 2,579 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, Burlington reported 6 violent crimes and 15 property crimes, for a total of 21 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Burlington's violent crime rate increased by 50.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 64.1%.
The most common crime type in Burlington is larceny-theft, accounting for 66.7% of all reported crimes (14 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Burlington 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.
Small-city rate methodology for how Burlington's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Burlington, KS rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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