District safety · Kansas City · data through October 2026

How safe is Line Creek, Kansas City?

Line Creek, Kansas City covers 17 neighborhoods in SafeRoute's Kansas City index. Its median safety index is 74/100 — above the citywide median of 55, so a typical neighborhood here reads safer than a typical one across Kansas City. Barry Harbour scores highest at 96/100; Platte Ridge lowest at 51/100.

These figures describe reported crime around each neighborhood's center — they are informational, not a judgment of any community. 8 of 17 neighborhoods here rate low risk, 9 moderate, 0 elevated and 0 high risk.

Every neighborhood in Line Creek, safest first

Neighborhood	Index	Band	Incidents
1 Barry Harbour	96/100	Low risk	12
2 Royal Oaks North	88/100	Low risk	35
3 Line Creek and Northern Heights	85/100	Low risk	40
4 Breen Hills	84/100	Low risk	44
5 Park Plaza	83/100	Low risk	46
6 Parkdale and Walden	83/100	Low risk	44
7 Platte Brook North	78/100	Low risk	58
8 Park Forest	77/100	Low risk	67
9 Coves North	74/100	Moderate	105
10 Clayton	72/100	Moderate	91
11 Lakeview Terrace	72/100	Moderate	96
12 Linden Park	72/100	Moderate	95
13 Prairie Point-Wildberry	71/100	Moderate	119
14 Tanglewood and Regency North	66/100	Moderate	117
15 The Coves	62/100	Moderate	156
16 Hawthorne and Picture Hills	58/100	Moderate	180
17 Platte Ridge	51/100	Moderate	265

How Line Creek 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 (this page)	74/100	17
Blue Ridge	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 Line Creek, Kansas City?

Barry Harbour has the highest SafeRoute safety index in Line Creek, Kansas City, at 96/100 (low risk), from 12 reported incidents within 1 km of its center. Royal Oaks North (88/100) and Line Creek and Northern Heights (85/100) follow.

Which neighborhood in Line Creek, Kansas City has the most reported crime?

Platte Ridge has the lowest index in Line Creek, Kansas City, at 51/100, with 265 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 Line Creek, Kansas City safe?

Across its 17 neighborhoods the median SafeRoute safety index is 74/100, against 55 across Kansas City. 8 rate low risk, 9 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 Line Creek, Kansas City is the median of its 17 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.