Most Dangerous Neighborhoods in Kansas City (2024)
Kansas City's open crime data has no reliable neighborhood population figure, so these KCPD beats are ranked by severity-weighted reported incident volume, not a per-person rate. The KCPD beats at the top of this list have the most reported incidents relative to other Kansas City KCPD beats.
Volume, not a safety rate. KCPD beat resident population is not reliably available for a per-100k rate, so no safety grade is published for any zone (see /crime-rate/methodology §6.6). The geographic unit is the KCPD beat (a policing/analysis boundary, not a resident-population neighborhood). relativeIndex ranks each zone by its VIOLENCE-WEIGHTED reported-incident volume (violent incidents weighted 3x property) against the other Kansas City zones — it is NOT population-adjusted and must not be read as a safety rate. Offenses are grouped into three coarse buckets (violent / property / other) via a keyword classifier.
Ranked highest reported volume first
Not the same KCPD beats as the safest neighborhoods in kansas city list.
- 1Beat 1130/100
- 2Beat 1334/100
- 3Beat 34510/100
- 4Beat 24114/100
- 5Beat 13418/100
- 6Beat 11224/100
- 7Beat 34127/100
- 8Beat 11528/100
- 9Beat 42229/100
- 10Beat 24230/100
- 11Beat 23432/100
- 12Beat 31434/100
- 13Beat 33239/100
- 14Beat 23341/100
- 15Beat 54242/100
- 16Beat 33142/100
- 17Beat 12143/100
- 18Beat 31246/100
- 19Beat 21146/100
- 20Beat 11146/100
- 21Beat 23249/100
- 22Beat 22249/100
- 23Beat 22149/100
- 24Beat 13249/100
- 25Beat 13149/100
- 26Beat 54350/100
- 27Beat 21250/100
- 28Beat 21351/100
- 29Beat 12351/100
- 30Beat 33354/100
- 31Beat 32254/100
- 32Beat 31355/100
- 33Beat 23157/100
- 34Beat 22357/100
- 35Beat 31558/100
- 36Beat 53559/100
- 37Beat 42159/100
- 38Beat 31159/100
- 39Beat 33460/100
- 40Beat 63561/100
Showing the top 40 of 81 KCPD beats.
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Most dangerous neighborhoods in Kansas City — FAQ
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No area has zero risk
A high Crime Index score means lower reported crime relative to other US cities — it is not a guarantee of safety. Reported crime is not the same as actual crime. Research on the gap between crime that occurs and crime that gets reported to police — often called the "dark figure" of crime — estimates that roughly 40% of violent crime and about a third of property crime go unreported each year. Every index built on official statistics, including this one, necessarily undercounts real crime. That gap is exactly why homicide — the offense with the smallest dark figure — anchors the calculation instead of a more commonly reported but less reliable category like theft.
Scores on this page reflect FBI-reported data for 2024. See the full methodology →