Kansas's comparable FBI window (2014–2024, 11 years) splits: one major offense rate rose while the other fell — the lead series is the larger |endpoint %| move.
Split-window verdict
Kansas's violent crime rate rose 36.3% from 2014 to 2024; its property crime rate fell 20.3%. A single combined label would hide that split, so the evidence below keeps the two series separate.
Full-window endpoints
Violent crime moved from 334.7 to 456.2 per 100,000 (+36.3%). Property crime moved from 2620.7 to 2090.0 (-20.3%). These are endpoint comparisons, not proof that every intervening year followed the same direction.
Recent direction check
From 2021 to 2024, the violent-crime rate rose 8.6%, compared with +36.3% across the full 2014-2024 window. That difference is why the latest few observations should be read separately from the decade-scale endpoints.
Latest national comparison
For 2024, the state rate was 456.2 per 100,000 versus 352.0 across the state records in this dataset, a gap of 29.6% above. This is a state-level benchmark, not a neighborhood-safety conclusion.
Peak and trough
The highest observed violent-crime rate was 456.2 in 2024; the lowest was 334.7 in 2014. The latest value lies 100% of the way from that low to that peak, which shows whether the endpoint is close to an extreme or near the middle of the observed range.
Year-to-year movement
The largest annual change ran from 2014 to 2015: +11.4%. Across the full sequence, 6 year-to-year steps rose by more than 1% and 3 fell by more than 1%. A single sharp step can reflect participation or reporting changes as well as a real change in recorded offenses.
Kansas's violent rate rose 11.4% (+38.2 per 100K) from 2014 to 2015 (334.7 → 372.9) — the sharpest comparable year-to-year step in this window. The largest move the other way was dropped 8.9% from 2015 to 2016 (372.9 → 339.8).
Kansas's violent gap vs the US aggregate moved from 7.9% below in 2014 to 29.6% above in 2024 (+37.5 pp).
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent | Rate | YoY | Property | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Comparable | 2,970,606 | 13,553 | 456.2 | ↑ 10.2% | 62,085 | 2090 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 2,940,546 | 12,176 | 414.1 | ↓ 0.2% | 58,198 | 1979.2 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 2,937,150 | 12,188 | 415 | ↓ 1.2% | 59,027 | 2009.7 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 2,934,582 | 12,331 | 420.2 | ↑ 6.1% | 61,943 | 2110.8 |
| 2020 | Comparable | 2,913,805 | 11,540 | 396 | ↑ 4.3% | 60,097 | 2062.5 |
| 2019 | Comparable | 2,913,314 | 11,061 | 379.7 | ↓ 1.7% | 61,940 | 2126.1 |
| 2018 | Comparable | 2,911,505 | 11,249 | 386.4 | ↑ 7.9% | 68,900 | 2366.5 |
| 2017 | Comparable | 2,913,123 | 10,436 | 358.2 | ↑ 5.4% | 71,262 | 2446.2 |
| 2016 | Comparable | 2,907,289 | 9,879 | 339.8 | ↓ 8.9% | 69,708 | 2397.7 |
| 2015 | Comparable | 2,911,641 | 10,857 | 372.9 | ↑ 11.4% | 75,788 | 2602.9 |
| 2014 | Comparable | 2,904,021 | 9,721 | 334.7 | - | 76,105 | 2620.7 |
More in Kansas: overview, safest cities, most dangerous, compare. Methodology — FBI UCR / Crime Data Explorer rates per 100,000 for Kansas (2014–2024); Census population where FBI denominators are missing.