District safety · Kansas City · data through September 2026

How safe is Country Club/Waldo, Kansas City?

Country Club/Waldo, Kansas City covers 23 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. Stratford Gardens scores highest at 90/100; Rockhill Manor lowest at 27/100.

These figures describe reported crime around each neighborhood's center — they are informational, not a judgment of any community. 6 of 23 neighborhoods here rate low risk, 11 moderate, 6 elevated and 0 high risk.

Every neighborhood in Country Club/Waldo, safest first

Neighborhood	Index	Band	Incidents
1 Stratford Gardens	90/100	Low risk	27
2 Sunset Hill West	90/100	Low risk	21
3 Romanelli West	88/100	Low risk	33
4 Ward Estates	86/100	Low risk	38
5 Country Club District	77/100	Low risk	76
6 Greenway Fields	76/100	Low risk	85
7 Country Club	74/100	Moderate	87
8 Armour Fields	72/100	Moderate	103
9 Wornall Homestead	72/100	Moderate	100
10 Brookside Park	69/100	Moderate	112
11 Ward Parkway Plaza	69/100	Moderate	126
12 Morningside	67/100	Moderate	128
13 Armour Hills	65/100	Moderate	139
14 West Waldo	56/100	Moderate	206
15 Waldo Homes	54/100	Moderate	189
16 Ward Parkway	51/100	Moderate	235
17 Western 49-63	51/100	Moderate	212
18 Oak Meyer Gardens	45/100	Elevated	270
19 Holmes Park	43/100	Elevated	269
20 Tower Homes	42/100	Elevated	325
21 Eastern 49-63	34/100	Elevated	376
22 Rolling Meadows	30/100	Elevated	441
23 Rockhill Manor	27/100	Elevated	522

How Country Club/Waldo 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	67/100	24
Country Club/Waldo (this page)	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 Country Club/Waldo, Kansas City?

Stratford Gardens has the highest SafeRoute safety index in Country Club/Waldo, Kansas City, at 90/100 (low risk), from 27 reported incidents within 1 km of its center. Sunset Hill West (90/100) and Romanelli West (88/100) follow.

Which neighborhood in Country Club/Waldo, Kansas City has the most reported crime?

Rockhill Manor has the lowest index in Country Club/Waldo, Kansas City, at 27/100, with 522 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 Country Club/Waldo, Kansas City safe?

Across its 23 neighborhoods the median SafeRoute safety index is 67/100, against 55 across Kansas City. 6 rate low risk, 11 moderate, 6 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 Country Club/Waldo, Kansas City is the median of its 23 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.