Safest 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 fewest 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 lowest reported volume first
Not the same KCPD beats as the most dangerous neighborhoods in kansas city list.
- 1Beat 541100/100
- 2Beat 99995/100
- 3Beat 42494/100
- 4Beat 64491/100
- 5Beat 42590/100
- 6Beat 12488/100
- 7Beat 63486/100
- 8Beat 14383/100
- 9Beat 41183/100
- 10Beat 41383/100
- 11Beat 63383/100
- 12Beat 41481/100
- 13Beat 63181/100
- 14Beat 41279/100
- 15Beat 63679/100
- 16Beat 14475/100
- 17Beat 64375/100
- 18Beat 12574/100
- 19Beat 41574/100
- 20Beat 11472/100
- 21Beat 54472/100
- 22Beat 64169/100
- 23Beat 12268/100
- 24Beat 32168/100
- 25Beat 53368/100
- 26Beat 63268/100
- 27Beat 54567/100
- 28Beat 64267/100
- 29Beat 34466/100
- 30Beat 42366/100
- 31Beat 14165/100
- 32Beat 14265/100
- 33Beat 32465/100
- 34Beat 53465/100
- 35Beat 22464/100
- 36Beat 53164/100
- 37Beat 34363/100
- 38Beat 24362/100
- 39Beat 32362/100
- 40Beat 53262/100
Showing the top 40 of 81 KCPD beats.
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Safest 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 →