District safety · Kansas City · data through September 2026
How safe is Gashland/Nashua, Kansas City?
Gashland/Nashua, Kansas City covers 8 neighborhoods in SafeRoute's Kansas City index. Its median safety index is 80/100 — above the citywide median of 55, so a typical neighborhood here reads safer than a typical one across Kansas City. Gashland scores highest at 96/100; Jefferson Highlands lowest at 62/100.
These figures describe reported crime around each neighborhood's center — they are informational, not a judgment of any community. 4 of 8 neighborhoods here rate low risk, 4 moderate, 0 elevated and 0 high risk.
Every neighborhood in Gashland/Nashua, safest first
| Neighborhood | Index | Band | Incidents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Gashland | 96/100 | Low risk | 11 |
| 2 Nashua | 85/100 | Low risk | 38 |
| 3 Outer Gashland-Nashua | 83/100 | Low risk | 43 |
| 4 Ridgefield | 80/100 | Low risk | 47 |
| 5 New Mark | 74/100 | Moderate | 90 |
| 6 Meadowbrook Heights | 70/100 | Moderate | 89 |
| 7 Sherrydale | 63/100 | Moderate | 119 |
| 8 Jefferson Highlands | 62/100 | Moderate | 153 |
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| Districts (safest first) | Median index | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|
| Little Blue Valley | 85/100 | 9 |
| Gashland/Nashua (this page) | 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 | 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 Gashland/Nashua, Kansas City?
Gashland has the highest SafeRoute safety index in Gashland/Nashua, Kansas City, at 96/100 (low risk), from 11 reported incidents within 1 km of its center. Nashua (85/100) and Outer Gashland-Nashua (83/100) follow.
Which neighborhood in Gashland/Nashua, Kansas City has the most reported crime?
Jefferson Highlands has the lowest index in Gashland/Nashua, Kansas City, at 62/100, with 153 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 Gashland/Nashua, Kansas City safe?
Across its 8 neighborhoods the median SafeRoute safety index is 80/100, against 55 across Kansas City. 4 rate low risk, 4 moderate, 0 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 Gashland/Nashua, Kansas City is the median of its 8 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.