Crime in Kansas (2024)
Kansas agencies reported 60,035 offenses to the FBI in 2024: 10,580 violent crimes, 49,089 property crimes and 366 arsons, across 300 reporting agencies.
Per 100,000 residents
Against a 2024 population of 2,965,252 (Census estimates). A floor: Kansas agencies that did not report contribute nothing.
Offenses by category
| Offense | Offenses | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Murder & nonnegligent manslaughter | 116 | 0.2% |
| Rape | 1,067 | 1.8% |
| Robbery | 752 | 1.3% |
| Aggravated assault | 8,645 | 14.4% |
| Burglary | 6,751 | 11.2% |
| Larceny-theft | 36,336 | 60.5% |
| Motor vehicle theft | 6,002 | 10.0% |
| Arson | 366 | 0.6% |
By county
Counties with sufficient reporting coverage (95 of Kansas's counties).
- Allen County
- Anderson County
- Atchison County
- Barber County
- Barton County
- Bourbon County
- Brown County
- Butler County
- Chase County
- Chautauqua County
- Cherokee County
- Cheyenne County
- Clark County
- Clay County
- Cloud County
- Coffey County
- Cowley County
- Crawford County
- Decatur County
- Dickinson County
- Doniphan County
- Douglas County
- Edwards County
- Elk County
- Ellis County
- Ellsworth County
- Finney County
- Ford County
- Franklin County
- Geary County
- Gove County
- Graham County
- Grant County
- Gray County
- Greeley County
- Greenwood County
- Hamilton County
- Harper County
- Harvey County
- Haskell County
- Hodgeman County
- Jackson County
- Jefferson County
- Jewell County
- Johnson County
- Kearny County
- Kingman County
- Kiowa County
- Labette County
- Lane County
- Leavenworth County
- Linn County
- Logan County
- Lyon County
- Marion County
- Marshall County
- McPherson County
- Miami County
- Mitchell County
- Montgomery County
- Morris County
- Morton County
- Nemaha County
- Neosho County
- Ness County
- Norton County
- Osage County
- Osborne County
- Pawnee County
- Pottawatomie County
- Pratt County
- Reno County
- Republic County
- Rice County
- Riley County
- Rooks County
- Rush County
- Russell County
- Saline County
- Scott County
- Sedgwick County
- Seward County
- Shawnee County
- Sheridan County
- Sherman County
- Stafford County
- Stevens County
- Sumner County
- Thomas County
- Wabaunsee County
- Washington County
- Wichita County
- Wilson County
- Woodson County
- Wyandotte County
Largest reporting agencies
| Agency | Violent | Property | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wichita Police Department | 2,130 | 9,108 | 11,316 |
| Kansas City Police Department | 1,606 | 5,531 | 7,140 |
| Topeka Police Department | 1,072 | 4,559 | 5,653 |
| Overland Park Police Department | 363 | 3,468 | 3,841 |
| Lawrence Police Department | 446 | 2,084 | 2,541 |
| Olathe Police Department | 293 | 1,407 | 1,706 |
| Shawnee Police Department | 194 | 1,242 | 1,437 |
| Salina Police Department | 224 | 1,125 | 1,363 |
| Riley County Police Department | 198 | 1,007 | 1,217 |
| Leavenworth Police Department | 183 | 956 | 1,146 |
| Hutchinson Police Department | 145 | 882 | 1,039 |
| Lenexa Police Department | 108 | 793 | 903 |
| Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office | 260 | 548 | 812 |
| Pittsburg Police Department | 75 | 715 | 795 |
| Garden City Police Department | 139 | 565 | 707 |
How to read these numbers
Counts are offenses reported by law-enforcement agencies to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program for 2024(Return A master file, which incorporates the FBI's own NIBRS-to-SRS conversion for agencies that report incident-based data). Nothing here is estimated: an agency that did not report contributes nothing, so totals are floors, not universes.
County figures use headquarters-county assignment: an agency's offenses count in the county where it is headquartered. Sheriff and state-police activity can span county lines; a county's figure is best read as "offenses reported by agencies based here." Counties where reporting agencies cover less than half of the policed population get no page; between 50% and 80% the page carries a visible partial-coverage notice.
Rates per 100,000 residentsuse Census Population Estimates (PEP) for the same year as the crime data. They appear only where the population served by agencies headquartered in a county is within 10% of the population that lives there. Where a police force covers several counties — the NYPD polices five boroughs from its Manhattan headquarters — the two geographies disagree, and a rate would be wrong by several times over in both directions. Those counties show counts without a rate rather than a number that looks authoritative and isn't.
Because non-reporting agencies contribute nothing, every rate here is a floor: the true rate is at least this high. Rates are most comparable between places with similar reporting coverage, which each page states.
Violent crime = murder + rape + robbery + aggravated assault. Property crime = burglary + larceny-theft + motor vehicle theft. Arson is tracked separately (from the FBI's de-duplicated SRS/NIBRS arson data) and is excluded from the property composite, following FBI practice. Aggravated assault excludes simple assault.
These figures will not match the FBI's published national estimates(which impute for non-reporting agencies) or the 12-month quarterly trend windows elsewhere on this site — different universes, both documented.