Overland Park, KS has a B safety grade (66/100) with a violent crime rate of 184 per 100,000, 48% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Overland Park, KS Crime Rate & Safety
At 196,875 residents, Overland Park 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.
Overland Park, KS carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 48% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Overland Park, KS shows violent crime at 184.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,761.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 48% 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.
B safety grade
184.4/100K violent
1761.5/100K property
-48% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Overland Park, KS
Comparable rate records
Overland Park's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Kansas cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Overland Park's 184.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Lenexa (183.5), Garnett (188.5), Roeland Park (180.2), Beloit (179.3). 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 209.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 184.4 in 2024 (-12.0%). The highest observed value was 239.6 in 2021 and the lowest 184.4 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 9.5% of the 3,831 Part I offenses reported in Overland Park for 2024, against a median of 13.8% across comparable Kansas cities — a gap of 4.3 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.
Position in the state cohort
Overland Park sits mid-pack among comparable Kansas cities
At 184.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Overland Park ranks 65 of 125 — above 60 of the 124 other Kansas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -3.5% against the cohort median of 191.0. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property counts dominate Overland Park'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.
Overland Park's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 75.3 Census sq mi, Overland Park logged 46.1 property and 4.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Overland Park's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (71% of 3,831 offenses; mix index 5,345).
Violent offenses are only 9% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (75.3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-20.6%
2217.7 → 1761.5/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-9.1%
202.8 → 184.4/100K
Property offenses lead Overland Park's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs KS
Property Crime
3,468
1761.5
2090
Larceny-Theft
2,728
1385.7
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
520
264.1
-
Burglary
220
111.7
-
Arson
10
5.1
-
Violent Crime
363
184.4
456.2
Aggravated Assault
284
144.3
-
Rape
41
20.8
-
Robbery
38
19.3
-
Murder
0
0
-
Overland Park Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Overland Park 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
Overland Park Police Department
Reporting agency for Overland Park NIBRS-participating
Overland Park Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Overland Park's 3,831 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 Overland Park in population. Their populations run from 39,548 to 153,363, against 196,875 here. Or use our
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Overland Park at 184.4/100K violent and 1,761.5/100K property - matched below outside Kansas (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Overland Park reported 363 violent crimes and 3,468 property crimes, for a total of 3,831 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Overland Park?
From 2023 to 2024, Overland Park's violent crime rate decreased by 9.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 20.6%.
What is the most common crime in Overland Park?
The most common crime type in Overland Park is larceny-theft, accounting for 71.2% of all reported crimes (2,728 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Overland Park'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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Overland Park, KS rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.