District safety · Kansas City · data through October 2026

How safe is Midtown/Plaza, Kansas City?

Midtown/Plaza, Kansas City covers 24 neighborhoods in SafeRoute's Kansas City index. Its median safety index is 25/100 — below the citywide median of 55, so more is reported around a typical neighborhood here than across Kansas City. Westwood scores highest at 63/100; Old Westport lowest at 12/100.

These figures describe reported crime around each neighborhood's center — they are informational, not a judgment of any community. 0 of 24 neighborhoods here rate low risk, 4 moderate, 8 elevated and 12 high risk.

Every neighborhood in Midtown/Plaza, safest first

Neighborhood	Index	Band	Incidents
1 Westwood	63/100	Moderate	171
2 Countryside	61/100	Moderate	184
3 Sunset Hill	56/100	Moderate	297
4 Crestwood	53/100	Moderate	243
5 Coleman Highlands	42/100	Elevated	351
6 Park Central-Research Park	32/100	Elevated	573
7 South Plaza	32/100	Elevated	688
8 Volker	30/100	Elevated	606
9 Rockhill	26/100	Elevated	771
10 West Plaza	26/100	Elevated	868
11 Manheim Park	25/100	Elevated	743
12 South Hyde Park	25/100	Elevated	791
13 Squier Park	23/100	High risk	817
14 Country Club Plaza	21/100	High risk	1,137
15 Center City	19/100	High risk	1,050
16 Roanoke	19/100	High risk	1,086
17 Central Hyde Park	17/100	High risk	1,226
18 Broadway Gillham	16/100	High risk	1,411
19 Southmoreland	16/100	High risk	1,447
20 Valentine	16/100	High risk	1,371
21 North Hyde Park	15/100	High risk	1,448
22 Plaza Westport	14/100	High risk	1,740
23 Hanover Place	12/100	High risk	1,907
24 Old Westport	12/100	High risk	1,881

How Midtown/Plaza 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	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 (this page)	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 Midtown/Plaza, Kansas City?

Westwood has the highest SafeRoute safety index in Midtown/Plaza, Kansas City, at 63/100 (moderate), from 171 reported incidents within 1 km of its center. Countryside (61/100) and Sunset Hill (56/100) follow.

Which neighborhood in Midtown/Plaza, Kansas City has the most reported crime?

Old Westport has the lowest index in Midtown/Plaza, Kansas City, at 12/100, with 1,881 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 Midtown/Plaza, Kansas City safe?

Across its 24 neighborhoods the median SafeRoute safety index is 25/100, against 55 across Kansas City. 0 rate low risk, 4 moderate, 8 elevated and 12 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 Midtown/Plaza, 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.