District safety · Kansas City · data through October 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 71/100 — 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 86/100; Sterling Acres lowest at 40/100.

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	86/100	Low risk	32
2 Eastwood Hills West	84/100	Low risk	47
3 Strupwood	83/100	Low risk	49
4 Brown Estates	80/100	Low risk	61
5 Western Blue Township	80/100	Low risk	54
6 Truman Sports Complex	77/100	Low risk	79
7 Coachlight Square	74/100	Moderate	81
8 Sterling Gardens	74/100	Moderate	87
9 Hillcrest	71/100	Moderate	97
10 Stayton Meadows	71/100	Moderate	91
11 Cunningham Ridge	70/100	Moderate	105
12 Lewis Heights	61/100	Moderate	148
13 Park Farms	59/100	Moderate	151
14 Ashland Ridge	57/100	Moderate	177
15 Eastwood Hills East	56/100	Moderate	173
16 East Swope Highlands	55/100	Moderate	185
17 Riss Lake	54/100	Moderate	188
18 Oldham Farms	51/100	Moderate	227
19 Sterling Acres	40/100	Elevated	469

How Blue Ridge compares across Kansas City

Districts (safest first)	Median index	Neighborhoods
Little Blue Valley	84/100	9
Gashland/Nashua	81/100	8
Riverfront Industrial	78/100	8
Line Creek	74/100	17
Blue Ridge (this page)	71/100	19
Briarcliff/Winnwood	67/100	24
Red Bridge	67/100	22
Country Club/Waldo	66/100	23
Hickman Mills	57/100	14
Swope	32/100	18
Truman Plaza	27/100	14
Midtown/Plaza	25/100	24
Heart of the City	24/100	21
Greater Downtown	21/100	19

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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 86/100 (low risk), from 32 reported incidents within 1 km of its center. Eastwood Hills West (84/100) and Strupwood (83/100) 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 40/100, with 469 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 71/100, 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.