District safety · Kansas City · data through September 2026

How safe is Briarcliff/Winnwood, Kansas City?

Briarcliff/Winnwood, Kansas City covers 24 neighborhoods in SafeRoute's Kansas City index. Its median safety index is 67/100 — above the citywide median of 55, so a typical neighborhood here reads safer than a typical one across Kansas City. Briarcliff West scores highest at 91/100; Chaumiere lowest at 49/100.

These figures describe reported crime around each neighborhood's center — they are informational, not a judgment of any community. 5 of 24 neighborhoods here rate low risk, 18 moderate, 1 elevated and 0 high risk.

Every neighborhood in Briarcliff/Winnwood, safest first

Neighborhood	Index	Band	Incidents
1 Briarcliff West	91/100	Low risk	22
2 Ravenwood-Somerset	87/100	Low risk	23
3 Chouteau Estates	81/100	Low risk	51
4 Maple Park	78/100	Low risk	56
5 River Forest	76/100	Low risk	60
6 Cooley Highlands S	74/100	Moderate	72
7 River View	74/100	Moderate	73
8 Foxwoods-Carriage Hills	73/100	Moderate	78
9 Gracemor-Randolph Corners	71/100	Moderate	73
10 Davidson	69/100	Moderate	91
11 Maple Park West	69/100	Moderate	96
12 Winnwood Gardens	67/100	Moderate	92
13 Country Club Estates and Big Shoal	66/100	Moderate	117
14 Hill Haven	66/100	Moderate	97
15 Glenhaven	64/100	Moderate	117
16 Sherwood Estates	63/100	Moderate	128
17 Briarcliff and Claymont	62/100	Moderate	134
18 Holiday Hills	57/100	Moderate	142
19 Colonial Square	54/100	Moderate	160
20 Antioch Acres	51/100	Moderate	182
21 Crestview	51/100	Moderate	198
22 Winnetonka	50/100	Moderate	194
23 Winnwood	50/100	Moderate	269
24 Chaumiere	49/100	Elevated	275

How Briarcliff/Winnwood 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	70/100	19
Red Bridge	68/100	22
Briarcliff/Winnwood (this page)	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 Briarcliff/Winnwood, Kansas City?

Briarcliff West has the highest SafeRoute safety index in Briarcliff/Winnwood, Kansas City, at 91/100 (low risk), from 22 reported incidents within 1 km of its center. Ravenwood-Somerset (87/100) and Chouteau Estates (81/100) follow.

Which neighborhood in Briarcliff/Winnwood, Kansas City has the most reported crime?

Chaumiere has the lowest index in Briarcliff/Winnwood, Kansas City, at 49/100, with 275 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 Briarcliff/Winnwood, Kansas City safe?

Across its 24 neighborhoods the median SafeRoute safety index is 67/100, against 55 across Kansas City. 5 rate low risk, 18 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 Briarcliff/Winnwood, Kansas City is the median of its 24 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.