Kansas City, KS has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 1047 per 100,000, 198% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 153,363 residents, Kansas City is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against KS and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Kansas City, KS carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 198% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Kansas City, KS shows violent crime at 1,047.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,606.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 198% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 1047.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Kansas City ranks 3 of 125 — above 122 of the 124 other Kansas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +451.9% 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 Kansas City's 1047.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Topeka (856.5), Parsons (1238.4), Junction City (776.6), Galena (690.9). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 22.5% of the 7,137 Part I offenses reported in Kansas City for 2024, against a median of 13.8% across comparable Kansas cities — a gap of 8.7 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 63.0% of reported property offenses in Kansas City, against a cohort median of 77.2%. The remainder is burglary (679) and motor vehicle theft (1,368). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Kansas 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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Across 124.7 Census sq mi, Kansas City logged 44.3 property and 12.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Kansas City leans on larceny-theft at 49% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,199.
Violent offenses are 23% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Kansas City offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (124.7 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 | 5,531 | 3606.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 3,484 | 2271.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1,368 | 892 |
| Burglary | 679 | 442.7 |
| Arson | 3 | 2 |
| Violent Crime | 1,606 | 1047.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 1,339 | 873.1 |
| Robbery | 144 | 93.9 |
| Rape | 104 | 67.8 |
| Murder | 19 | 12.4 |
The chart omits 2020, 2021, 2022 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · rose across 2 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2023-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Insufficient reporting | 153,459 | - | - |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 154,216 | - | - |
| 2022 | Insufficient reporting | 153,099 | - | - |
| 2023 | Comparable | 152,115 | 118.3 | 448.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 153,363 | 1047.2 | 3606.5 |
Kansas City Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Kansas City's 7,137 reported offenses (2-year span 2023-2024).
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 Kansas City in population. Their populations run from 39,548 to 196,875, against 153,363 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Kansas City sits at 1,047.2/100K violent (grade F); the Kansas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Kansas City at 1,047.2/100K violent and 3,606.5/100K property - matched below outside Kansas (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
1,047.2/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
3,606.5/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+785.2% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Kansas City reported 1,606 violent crimes and 5,531 property crimes, for a total of 7,137 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Kansas City's violent crime rate increased by 785.2%, and the property crime rate increased by 704.5%.
The most common crime type in Kansas City is larceny-theft, accounting for 48.8% of all reported crimes (3,484 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Kansas City's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Large-city rate methodology for how Kansas City's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Kansas City, KS rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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