District safety · Kansas City · data through October 2026

How safe is Swope, Kansas City?

Swope, Kansas City covers 18 neighborhoods in SafeRoute's Kansas City index. Its median safety index is 32/100 — below the citywide median of 55, so more is reported around a typical neighborhood here than across Kansas City. Swope Park scores highest at 87/100; 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	87/100	Low risk	35
2 Marlborough East	53/100	Moderate	188
3 Swope Parkway-Elmwood	47/100	Elevated	245
4 Mount Cleveland	44/100	Elevated	297
5 Sheraton Estates	44/100	Elevated	299
6 Foxtown East	38/100	Elevated	351
7 East Meyer 6	37/100	Elevated	383
8 Noble and Gregory Ridge	35/100	Elevated	389
9 East Meyer 7	32/100	Elevated	487
10 Marlborough Heights/Marlborough Pride	28/100	Elevated	559
11 Neighbors United For Action	28/100	Elevated	586
12 South Town Fork Creek	28/100	Elevated	557
13 Blenheim Square Research Hospital	27/100	Elevated	596
14 Citadel	26/100	Elevated	627
15 Self Help Neighborhood Council	25/100	Elevated	655
16 Swope Park Campus	25/100	Elevated	668
17 North Town Fork Creek	23/100	High risk	740
18 Blue Hills	21/100	High risk	838

How Swope 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 (this page)	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 Swope, Kansas City?

Swope Park has the highest SafeRoute safety index in Swope, Kansas City, at 87/100 (low risk), from 35 reported incidents within 1 km of its center. Marlborough East (53/100) and Swope Parkway-Elmwood (47/100) 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 838 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 32/100, 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.