Dodge City, KS has a B safety grade (65/100) with a violent crime rate of 251 per 100,000, 29% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Dodge City (27,441 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then KS and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Dodge City, KS carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 29% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Dodge City, KS shows violent crime at 251.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,089.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 29% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Dodge City's 251.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Liberal (255.9), Columbus (245.1), Hillsboro (261.8), Abilene (264.0). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 469.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 251.4 in 2024 (-46.4%). The highest observed value was 477.2 in 2021 and the lowest 251.4 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 251.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Dodge City ranks 47 of 125 — above 78 of the 124 other Kansas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +32.5% 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 are 18.8% of the 368 Part I offenses reported in Dodge City for 2024, against a median of 13.8% across comparable Kansas cities — a gap of 5.0 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 counts dominate Dodge City'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 15 Census sq mi, Dodge City logged 19.9 property and 4.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Dodge City's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (69% of 368 offenses; mix index 5,056).
Violent offenses are 19% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Dodge City offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (15 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 | 299 | 1089.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 253 | 922 |
| Burglary | 31 | 113 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 15 | 54.7 |
| Arson | 5 | 18.2 |
| Violent Crime | 69 | 251.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 56 | 204.1 |
| Rape | 10 | 36.4 |
| Robbery | 3 | 10.9 |
| Murder | 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 | 27,066 | 469.2 | 2541.9 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 26,612 | 477.2 | 1698.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 27,641 | 401.6 | 1664.2 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 27,269 | 381.4 | 1349.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 27,441 | 251.4 | 1089.6 |
Dodge City Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Dodge City's 368 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 Dodge City in population. Their populations run from 20,465 to 34,010, against 27,441 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Dodge City sits at 251.4/100K violent (grade B); the Kansas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Dodge City at 251.4/100K violent and 1,089.6/100K property - matched below outside Kansas (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
251.4/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,089.6/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-34.1% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Dodge City reported 69 violent crimes and 299 property crimes, for a total of 368 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Dodge City's violent crime rate decreased by 34.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 19.3%.
The most common crime type in Dodge City is larceny-theft, accounting for 68.8% of all reported crimes (253 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Dodge City figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Dodge City's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Dodge City, 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. Dodge City is scored in the mid-size municipal band (27,441 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.