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Kansas Cities With The Highest Violent-Crime Pressure

Decision-support ranking comparing Kansas cities by current violent crime per 1,000 using the currently published coarse crime context, then routing readers into each city brief for tract context and caveats.

Cities ranked
268
Supported Kansas cities with tract-backed crime context.
Leaderboard

Current order from the latest data

Ranked rows are precomputed and served as static HTML from R2.

#PlaceMetric
1 Centralia
Violent Crime has increased 38% since 2021.
7.6 / 1k
2 Perry
Violent Crime has increased 38% since 2021.
7.6 / 1k
3 Topeka
Violent Crime has increased 38% since 2021.
7.6 / 1k
4 Auburn
Violent Crime has increased 38% since 2021.
7.6 / 1k
5 Circleville
Violent Crime has increased 38% since 2021.
7.6 / 1k
6 Holton
Violent Crime has increased 38% since 2021.
7.6 / 1k
7 Meriden
Violent Crime has increased 38% since 2021.
7.6 / 1k
8 Scranton
Violent Crime has increased 38% since 2021.
7.6 / 1k
9 Tecumseh
Violent Crime has increased 38% since 2021.
7.6 / 1k
10 Wabaunsee
Violent Crime has increased 38% since 2021.
7.6 / 1k
11 Wakarusa
Violent Crime has increased 38% since 2021.
7.6 / 1k
12 Whiting
Violent Crime has increased 38% since 2021.
7.6 / 1k
13 Eskridge
Violent Crime has increased 38% since 2021.
7.6 / 1k
14 Sabetha
Violent Crime has increased 38% since 2021.
7.6 / 1k
15 Bonner Springs
Violent Crime does not yet have a long enough history to describe a full trend.
7.5 / 1k
16 Edwardsville
Violent Crime does not yet have a long enough history to describe a full trend.
7.5 / 1k
17 Kansas City
Violent Crime does not yet have a long enough history to describe a full trend.
7.5 / 1k
18 Abilene
Violent Crime has declined 4% since 2021.
6.7 / 1k
19 Herington
Violent Crime has declined 4% since 2021.
6.7 / 1k
20 Chapman
Violent Crime has declined 4% since 2021.
6.7 / 1k
21 Fort Riley
Violent Crime has declined 4% since 2021.
6.7 / 1k
22 Grandview Plaza
Violent Crime has declined 4% since 2021.
6.7 / 1k
23 Navarre
Violent Crime has declined 4% since 2021.
6.7 / 1k
24 Solomon
Violent Crime has declined 4% since 2021.
6.7 / 1k
25 Junction City
Violent Crime has declined 4% since 2021.
6.7 / 1k
Research notes

How to read this ranking

Research note

What this ranking means

This page is useful for a current statewide pressure screen. It compares supported Kansas cities by aggregate violent-crime rate before you open the deeper city briefs. Outside Colorado, this remains statewide fallback context rather than local incident-feed depth.

Research note

What this ranking can miss

A current city rate does not tell you whether conditions are improving, how concentrated the pressure is, or which neighborhoods are driving it. Open the city brief and neighborhood pages next.