Chanute, KS has a D safety grade (30/100) with a violent crime rate of 525 per 100,000, 49% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Chanute is a small municipal reporter (8,378 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with KS and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Chanute, KS carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 49% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Chanute, KS shows violent crime at 525.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,017.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 49% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 525.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Chanute ranks 14 of 125 — above 111 of the 124 other Kansas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +176.8% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Chanute's 525.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Concordia (522.4), Independence (522.0), Iola (529.1), Coffeyville (529.8). 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 20.7% of the 213 Part I offenses reported in Chanute for 2024, against a median of 13.8% across comparable Kansas cities — a gap of 6.9 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 62.7% of reported property offenses in Chanute, against a cohort median of 77.2%. The remainder is burglary (56) and motor vehicle theft (7). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Chanute'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.
Across 7.1 Census sq mi, Chanute logged 23.8 property and 6.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Chanute leans on larceny-theft at 50% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,401.
Violent offenses are 21% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Chanute offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (7.1 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 | 169 | 2017.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 106 | 1265.2 |
| Burglary | 56 | 668.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 7 | 83.6 |
| Arson | 2 | 23.9 |
| Violent Crime | 44 | 525.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 30 | 358.1 |
| Rape | 9 | 107.4 |
| Robbery | 5 | 59.7 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 9,034 | 0 | 11.1 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 8,979 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 8,571 | 571.7 | 2928.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 8,485 | 730.7 | 2828.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 8,378 | 525.2 | 2017.2 |
Chanute Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Chanute's 213 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
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 Chanute in population. Their populations run from 7,530 to 9,247, against 8,378 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Chanute sits at 525.2/100K violent (grade D); the Kansas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Chanute reported 44 violent crimes and 169 property crimes, for a total of 213 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Chanute's violent crime rate decreased by 28.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 28.7%.
The most common crime type in Chanute is larceny-theft, accounting for 49.8% of all reported crimes (106 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Chanute 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 Chanute's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Chanute, KS rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Chanute is scored as a small-city UCR reporter (8,378 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.