District safety · Kansas City · data through September 2026

How safe is Blue Ridge, Kansas City?

Blue Ridge, Kansas City covers 19 neighborhoods in SafeRoute's Kansas City index. Its median safety index is 70/100 — above the citywide median of 55, so a typical neighborhood here reads safer than a typical one across Kansas City. Swope Park Ridge-Winchester scores highest at 85/100; Sterling Acres lowest at 39/100.

These figures describe reported crime around each neighborhood's center — they are informational, not a judgment of any community. 6 of 19 neighborhoods here rate low risk, 12 moderate, 1 elevated and 0 high risk.

Every neighborhood in Blue Ridge, safest first

Neighborhood	Index	Band	Incidents
1 Swope Park Ridge-Winchester	85/100	Low risk	26
2 Eastwood Hills West	84/100	Low risk	39
3 Strupwood	82/100	Low risk	41
4 Western Blue Township	80/100	Low risk	43
5 Brown Estates	79/100	Low risk	53
6 Truman Sports Complex	79/100	Low risk	59
7 Coachlight Square	74/100	Moderate	67
8 Sterling Gardens	74/100	Moderate	71
9 Stayton Meadows	71/100	Moderate	73
10 Cunningham Ridge	70/100	Moderate	88
11 Hillcrest	70/100	Moderate	86
12 Lewis Heights	61/100	Moderate	129
13 Ashland Ridge	59/100	Moderate	141
14 Park Farms	58/100	Moderate	132
15 Riss Lake	57/100	Moderate	145
16 Eastwood Hills East	56/100	Moderate	144
17 East Swope Highlands	55/100	Moderate	155
18 Oldham Farms	51/100	Moderate	192
19 Sterling Acres	39/100	Elevated	391

How Blue Ridge compares across Kansas City

Districts (safest first)	Median index	Neighborhoods
Little Blue Valley	85/100	9
Gashland/Nashua	80/100	8
Riverfront Industrial	78/100	8
Line Creek	74/100	17
Blue Ridge (this page)	70/100	19
Red Bridge	68/100	22
Briarcliff/Winnwood	67/100	24
Country Club/Waldo	67/100	23
Hickman Mills	57/100	14
Swope	31/100	18
Truman Plaza	27/100	14
Midtown/Plaza	26/100	24
Heart of the City	24/100	21
Greater Downtown	22/100	19

Common questions

What is the safest neighborhood in Blue Ridge, Kansas City?

Swope Park Ridge-Winchester has the highest SafeRoute safety index in Blue Ridge, Kansas City, at 85/100 (low risk), from 26 reported incidents within 1 km of its center. Eastwood Hills West (84/100) and Strupwood (82/100) follow.

Which neighborhood in Blue Ridge, Kansas City has the most reported crime?

Sterling Acres has the lowest index in Blue Ridge, Kansas City, at 39/100, with 391 reported incidents within 1 km of its center. A low score means more is reported around that center, which busy commercial and transport areas produce simply by having more people in them — it is not a measure of how dangerous a resident's street is.

Is Blue Ridge, Kansas City safe?

Across its 19 neighborhoods the median SafeRoute safety index is 70/100, against 55 across Kansas City. 6 rate low risk, 12 moderate, 1 elevated and 0 high risk. These describe reported crime only and vary widely within the district — check the individual neighborhood rather than reading one number for the whole of it.

How is the SafeRoute 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 figure shown for Blue Ridge, Kansas City is the median of its 19 neighborhoods — the district is not measured separately.

Methodology

Each incident reported to the Kansas City Police Department is weighted by severity — violence counts for more than shoplifting. For every neighborhood we sum weighted incidents within 1 km of its center, and normalize against citywide rates onto a 0–100 index, higher = safer. Boundaries are the city's own 246 neighborhoods, grouped by the 18 Area Plans the city itself plans against. Two are not scored: KCI & 2nd Creek, which is the airport, and Longview, which wraps Longview Lake and carries almost no recorded incidents anywhere inside it — a page there could only have said “0 incidents, 100/100”, which is missing data dressed as proven safety. Kansas City covers a lot of ground, and several neighborhoods along the Missouri and Blue river bottoms are industrial or largely undeveloped; those pages say so rather than letting an empty count read as a quiet street. Time-of-day charts use KCPD incident timestamps, severity-weighted. Pages regenerate as new data is published.

The index compares neighborhoods within Kansas City. It is not comparable between cities: each police force publishes a different set of offences over a different period — Kansas City's figures cannot be read against another city's on the same 0–100 scale.