Wichita, KS has a D safety grade (26/100) with a violent crime rate of 539 per 100,000, 53% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · very large city
At 395,486 residents, Wichita is a very 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
Wichita, KS carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 53% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Wichita, KS shows violent crime at 538.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,303 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 53% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1337.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 538.6 in 2024 (-59.7%). The highest observed value was 1337.2 in 2020 and the lowest 538.6 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
At 538.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Wichita ranks 11 of 125 — above 114 of the 124 other Kansas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +183.8% 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 Wichita's 538.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Coffeyville (529.8), Iola (529.1), Chanute (525.2), Concordia (522.4). 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 11,238 Part I offenses reported here are 21.8% of the 51,518 reported across all 125 comparable Kansas 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 395,486 rather than as a uniform shift.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 19.0% of the 11,238 Part I offenses reported in Wichita for 2024, against a median of 13.8% across comparable Kansas cities — a gap of 5.2 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 Wichita'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 165.1 Census sq mi, Wichita logged 55.2 property and 12.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Wichita's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (63% of 11,238 offenses; mix index 4,388).
Violent offenses are 19% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Wichita offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (165.1 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 | 9,108 | 2303 |
| Larceny-Theft | 7,083 | 1791 |
| Burglary | 1,039 | 262.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 986 | 249.3 |
| Arson | 78 | 19.7 |
| Violent Crime | 2,130 | 538.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 1,769 | 447.3 |
| Robbery | 197 | 49.8 |
| Rape | 131 | 33.1 |
| Murder | 33 | 8.3 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 390,746 | 1337.2 | 5116.1 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 392,643 | 1160.9 | 4494.4 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 394,286 | 1107.6 | 4276.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 395,290 | 1155.9 | 4832.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 395,486 | 538.6 | 2303 |
Wichita Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Wichita's 11,238 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 Wichita in population. Their populations run from 45,447 to 196,875, against 395,486 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Wichita sits at 538.6/100K violent (grade D); the Kansas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Wichita at 538.6/100K violent and 2,303/100K property - matched below outside Kansas (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
538.6/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,303/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-53.4% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Wichita reported 2,130 violent crimes and 9,108 property crimes, for a total of 11,238 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Wichita's violent crime rate decreased by 53.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 52.3%.
The most common crime type in Wichita is larceny-theft, accounting for 63.0% of all reported crimes (7,083 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Wichita'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 Wichita's very large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Wichita, KS rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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