District safety · Kansas City · data through September 2026

How safe is Red Bridge, Kansas City?

Red Bridge, Kansas City covers 22 neighborhoods in SafeRoute's Kansas City index. Its median safety index is 68/100 — above the citywide median of 55, so a typical neighborhood here reads safer than a typical one across Kansas City. Oakwood scores highest at 91/100; Willow Creek lowest at 38/100.

These figures describe reported crime around each neighborhood's center — they are informational, not a judgment of any community. 8 of 22 neighborhoods here rate low risk, 11 moderate, 3 elevated and 0 high risk.

Every neighborhood in Red Bridge, safest first

Neighborhood	Index	Band	Incidents
1 Oakwood	91/100	Low risk	22
2 Verona Hills	90/100	Low risk	27
3 Blue Hills Estates	88/100	Low risk	28
4 Foxcroft and Glen Arbor	84/100	Low risk	42
5 Mission Lake	78/100	Low risk	54
6 Woodbridge	76/100	Low risk	63
7 Royal Oaks	75/100	Low risk	72
8 St Catherines Gardens	75/100	Low risk	72
9 Red Bridge North	74/100	Moderate	79
10 Country Lane Estates	71/100	Moderate	96
11 Calico Farms	68/100	Moderate	93
12 Legacy East	64/100	Moderate	95
13 Linden Hills and Indian Heights	64/100	Moderate	109
14 Bridlespur	63/100	Moderate	137
15 Red Bridge South	56/100	Moderate	161
16 Lea Manor	55/100	Moderate	195
17 Terrace Lake Gardens	55/100	Moderate	160
18 Boone Hills	50/100	Moderate	213
19 Western Hills	50/100	Moderate	277
20 Hidden Valley	49/100	Elevated	193
21 Santa Fe Hills	44/100	Elevated	268
22 Willow Creek	38/100	Elevated	343

How Red Bridge 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 (this page)	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 Red Bridge, Kansas City?

Oakwood has the highest SafeRoute safety index in Red Bridge, Kansas City, at 91/100 (low risk), from 22 reported incidents within 1 km of its center. Verona Hills (90/100) and Blue Hills Estates (88/100) follow.

Which neighborhood in Red Bridge, Kansas City has the most reported crime?

Willow Creek has the lowest index in Red Bridge, Kansas City, at 38/100, with 343 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 Red Bridge, Kansas City safe?

Across its 22 neighborhoods the median SafeRoute safety index is 68/100, against 55 across Kansas City. 8 rate low risk, 11 moderate, 3 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 Red Bridge, Kansas City is the median of its 22 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.