Great Bend, KS carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 10% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Great Bend, KS shows violent crime at 315.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,556.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 10% below 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
315.5/100K violent
1556.3/100K property
-10% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Great Bend, KS
Comparable rate records
Great Bend's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Kansas cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Great Bend's 315.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Grandview Plaza (311.1), Marysville (324.1), Pleasanton (334.7), Fredonia (292.5). 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 565.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 315.5 in 2024 (-44.2%). The highest observed value was 565.1 in 2020 and the lowest 315.5 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
Great Bend sits mid-pack among comparable Kansas cities
At 315.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Great Bend ranks 35 of 125 — above 90 of the 124 other Kansas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +66.3% 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 16.9% of the 267 Part I offenses reported in Great Bend for 2024, against a median of 13.8% across comparable Kansas cities — a gap of 3.1 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 Great Bend'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.
Great Bend's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 10.5 Census sq mi, Great Bend logged 21.1 property and 4.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Great Bend leans on larceny-theft at 58% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,973.
Violent offenses are 17% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (10.5 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
-26.8%
430.9 → 315.5/100K
Property Crime Rate
-6.3%
1661.2 → 1556.3/100K
Property offenses lead Great Bend's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs KS
Property Crime
222
1556.3
2090
Larceny-Theft
155
1086.6
-
Burglary
55
385.6
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
12
84.1
-
Arson
5
35.1
-
Violent Crime
45
315.5
456.2
Aggravated Assault
31
217.3
-
Rape
12
84.1
-
Murder
1
7
-
Robbery
1
7
-
Great Bend Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Great Bend 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
Great Bend Police Department
Reporting agency for Great Bend NIBRS-participating
Great Bend Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Great Bend's 267 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 Great Bend in population. Their populations run from 11,216 to 16,108, against 14,265 here. Or use our
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Great Bend at 315.5/100K violent and 1,556.3/100K property - matched below outside Kansas (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Great Bend reported 45 violent crimes and 222 property crimes, for a total of 267 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Great Bend?
From 2023 to 2024, Great Bend's violent crime rate decreased by 26.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 6.3%.
What is the most common crime in Great Bend?
The most common crime type in Great Bend is larceny-theft, accounting for 58.1% of all reported crimes (155 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Great Bend 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Great Bend, KS rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.