District safety · Kansas City · data through September 2026

How safe is Swope, Kansas City?

Swope, Kansas City covers 18 neighborhoods in SafeRoute's Kansas City index. Its median safety index is 31/100 — below the citywide median of 55, so more is reported around a typical neighborhood here than across Kansas City. Swope Park scores highest at 88/100; Blue Hills lowest at 21/100.

These figures describe reported crime around each neighborhood's center — they are informational, not a judgment of any community. 1 of 18 neighborhoods here rates low risk, 1 moderate, 14 elevated and 2 high risk.

Every neighborhood in Swope, safest first

Neighborhood	Index	Band	Incidents
1 Swope Park	88/100	Low risk	27
2 Marlborough East	54/100	Moderate	156
3 Swope Parkway-Elmwood	49/100	Elevated	187
4 Sheraton Estates	46/100	Elevated	226
5 Mount Cleveland	45/100	Elevated	235
6 Foxtown East	39/100	Elevated	294
7 East Meyer 6	38/100	Elevated	318
8 Noble and Gregory Ridge	35/100	Elevated	325
9 East Meyer 7	31/100	Elevated	417
10 Marlborough Heights/Marlborough Pride	28/100	Elevated	453
11 Neighbors United For Action	28/100	Elevated	494
12 South Town Fork Creek	28/100	Elevated	468
13 Blenheim Square Research Hospital	26/100	Elevated	510
14 Citadel	25/100	Elevated	539
15 Self Help Neighborhood Council	25/100	Elevated	561
16 Swope Park Campus	25/100	Elevated	562
17 North Town Fork Creek	23/100	High risk	605
18 Blue Hills	21/100	High risk	711

How Swope 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	67/100	23
Hickman Mills	57/100	14
Swope (this page)	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 Swope, Kansas City?

Swope Park has the highest SafeRoute safety index in Swope, Kansas City, at 88/100 (low risk), from 27 reported incidents within 1 km of its center. Marlborough East (54/100) and Swope Parkway-Elmwood (49/100) follow.

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

Blue Hills has the lowest index in Swope, Kansas City, at 21/100, with 711 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 Swope, Kansas City safe?

Across its 18 neighborhoods the median SafeRoute safety index is 31/100, against 55 across Kansas City. 1 rates low risk, 1 moderate, 14 elevated and 2 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 Swope, Kansas City is the median of its 18 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.