Galena, KS has a D safety grade (27/100) with a violent crime rate of 691 per 100,000, 96% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Galena is a small municipal reporter (2,750 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with KS and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Galena, KS carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 96% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Galena, KS shows violent crime at 690.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 436.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 96% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 61.3% of the 31 Part I offenses reported in Galena for 2024, against a median of 13.8% across comparable Kansas cities — a gap of 47.5 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.
Small-count caution
Galena reported 19 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 2,750. 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 690.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Galena ranks 6 of 125 — above 119 of the 124 other Kansas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +264.1% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 423.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 690.9 in 2024 (+63.1%). The highest observed value was 690.9 in 2024 and the lowest 292.3 in 2022. 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 Galena's 690.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Newton (617.2), Junction City (776.6), Anthony (582.2), Greensburg (573.9). 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.
Violent counts are the sharper signal on Galena's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Based on 19 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,750. 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 4.6 Census sq mi, Galena logged 2.6 property and 4.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Galena's 2024 book concentrates in aggravated assault (58% of 31 offenses; mix index 4,318).
Violent offenses are 61% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small city.
Galena offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4.6 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Violent Crime | 19 | 690.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 18 | 654.5 |
| Rape | 1 | 36.4 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
| Property Crime | 12 | 436.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 9 | 327.3 |
| Burglary | 3 | 109.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 2,832 | 423.7 | 2613 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 2,798 | 536.1 | 1751.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 2,737 | 292.3 | 1424.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 2,744 | 619.5 | 1421.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 2,750 | 690.9 | 436.4 |
Galena Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Galena's 31 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 Galena in population. Their populations run from 2,458 to 3,155, against 2,750 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Galena sits at 690.9/100K violent (grade D); the Kansas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Galena reported 19 violent crimes and 12 property crimes, for a total of 31 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Galena's violent crime rate increased by 11.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 69.3%.
The most common crime type in Galena is aggravated assault, accounting for 58.1% of all reported crimes (18 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Galena 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 Galena's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Galena, KS rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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