Safety index · Country Club/Waldo, Kansas City · data through September 2026
Is Brookside Park safe?
Brookside Park shows a typical level of reported crime for Kansas City. Its SafeRoute safety index is 69 out of 100 — 14 points above the citywide median of 55, ranking 82nd of 243 Kansas City neighborhoods — based on 112 incidents reported to the KCPD within 1 km of the neighborhood center over the 8 months to September 2026.
DATA THROUGH SEPTEMBER 2026 · 8 MONTHS OF DATA
The 0–100 scale is calibrated to Kansas City — a typical Kansas City neighborhood sits near 55. It ranks Brookside Park against other neighborhoods here, and cannot be read against a score in another city.
Most of what's reported here is property-related — vehicle crime alone is 28% of reports — rather than violence against strangers, though the full mix below is worth a look.
Incidents spread across the day here — roughly 27% of severity-weighted reports come in the evening (6 p.m.–midnight) and 15% overnight.
Where incidents cluster
What's reported here
| Vehicle crime | 31 · 28% | |
| Violent crime | 12 · 11% | |
| Other theft | 25 · 22% | |
| Criminal damage & arson | 14 · 13% | |
| Burglary | 13 · 12% | |
| Public order | 8 · 7% |
When it happens
Severity-weighted share of reported incidents by time of day, from police incident timestamps.
Walking in Brookside Park at night?
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Is Brookside Park safe at night?
Moderate overall (safety index 69/100). About 42% of severity-weighted incidents in Brookside Park are reported between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. At night, prefer lit, busier streets — a block or two of detour often avoids the clusters on the map above.
What is the most common crime in Brookside Park?
Vehicle crime — 31 of 112 incidents (28%) reported within 1 km of the neighborhood center over the 8 months to September 2026.
How is the Brookside Park safety index calculated?
SafeRoute weights each incident reported to the Kansas City Police Department by severity (violence weighs more than shoplifting), sums the last available period within 1 km of the neighborhood center, and normalizes against citywide crime rates onto a 0–100 scale — higher is safer. It describes reported crime only; it is not a guarantee of safety. The scale is calibrated within Kansas City, so scores compare neighborhoods to each other and cannot be read against another city's.