Kansas City, MO has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 1547 per 100,000, 340% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · very large city
At 511,535 residents, Kansas City is a very large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against MO and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Kansas City, MO carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 340% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Kansas City, MO shows violent crime at 1,547.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 4,676.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 340% 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 1547.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Kansas City ranks 6 of 272 — above 266 of the 271 other Missouri cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +739.3% against the cohort median of 184.3. 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 1547.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Country Club Hills (1621.1), Vinita Park (1718.8), St. Louis (1367.1), Butler (1359.0). 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.
Share of the state cohort
The 31,834 Part I offenses reported here are 26.1% of the 121,760 reported across all 272 comparable Missouri cities in 2024. A city this large moves the statewide municipal total on its own, so state-level changes should be read against its population of 511,535 rather than as a uniform shift.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 52.5% of reported property offenses in Kansas City, against a cohort median of 78.6%. The remainder is burglary (2,508) and motor vehicle theft (8,857). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 24.9% of the 31,834 Part I offenses reported in Kansas City for 2024, against a median of 13.4% across comparable Missouri cities — a gap of 11.4 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1604.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1547.1 in 2024 (-3.6%). The highest observed value was 1604.1 in 2020 and the lowest 1483.9 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
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 very large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Across 314.5 Census sq mi, Kansas City logged 76.1 property and 25.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Kansas City leans on larceny-theft at 39% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,776.
Violent offenses are 25% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Kansas City offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (314.5 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 23,920 | 4676.1 |
| Larceny-Theft | 12,555 | 2454.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 8,857 | 1731.5 |
| Burglary | 2,508 | 490.3 |
| Arson | 89 | 17.4 |
| Violent Crime | 7,914 | 1547.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 6,092 | 1190.9 |
| Robbery | 1,299 | 253.9 |
| Rape | 382 | 74.7 |
| Murder | 141 | 27.6 |
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 | 499,335 | 1604.1 | 4210 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 500,965 | 1483.9 | 4357.4 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 508,856 | 1490.4 | 4764.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 509,855 | 1489.8 | 5013 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 511,535 | 1547.1 | 4676.1 |
Kansas City Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Kansas City's 31,834 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 Missouri cities closest to Kansas City in population. Their populations run from 70,139 to 277,294, against 511,535 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Kansas City sits at 1,547.1/100K violent (grade F); the Missouri cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Kansas City at 1,547.1/100K violent and 4,676.1/100K property - matched below outside Missouri (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
1,547.1/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
4,676.1/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+3.8% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Kansas City reported 7,914 violent crimes and 23,920 property crimes, for a total of 31,834 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Kansas City's violent crime rate increased by 3.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 6.7%.
The most common crime type in Kansas City is larceny-theft, accounting for 39.4% of all reported crimes (12,555 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 (very 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 very large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Kansas City, MO rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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