District safety · Kansas City · data through September 2026
How safe is Truman Plaza, Kansas City?
Truman Plaza, Kansas City covers 14 neighborhoods in SafeRoute's Kansas City index. Its median safety index is 27/100 — below the citywide median of 55, so more is reported around a typical neighborhood here than across Kansas City. East Blue Valley scores highest at 41/100; Independence Plaza lowest at 17/100.
These figures describe reported crime around each neighborhood's center — they are informational, not a judgment of any community. 0 of 14 neighborhoods here rate low risk, 0 moderate, 9 elevated and 5 high risk.
Every neighborhood in Truman Plaza, safest first
| Neighborhood | Index | Band | Incidents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 East Blue Valley | 41/100 | Elevated | 293 |
| 2 South Blue Valley | 38/100 | Elevated | 310 |
| 3 Central Blue Valley and Park Tower Gardens | 37/100 | Elevated | 308 |
| 4 Sheffield | 36/100 | Elevated | 378 |
| 5 East Community Team North | 31/100 | Elevated | 459 |
| 6 East Community Team South | 29/100 | Elevated | 481 |
| 7 North Indian Mound | 27/100 | Elevated | 543 |
| 8 West Blue Valley | 27/100 | Elevated | 521 |
| 9 Pendleton Heights | 26/100 | Elevated | 581 |
| 10 Scarritt Point | 23/100 | High risk | 673 |
| 11 Lykins | 21/100 | High risk | 792 |
| 12 Forgotten Homes | 18/100 | High risk | 913 |
| 13 South Indian Mound | 18/100 | High risk | 909 |
| 14 Independence Plaza | 17/100 | High risk | 931 |
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| 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 | 31/100 | 18 |
| Truman Plaza (this page) | 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 Truman Plaza, Kansas City?
East Blue Valley has the highest SafeRoute safety index in Truman Plaza, Kansas City, at 41/100 (elevated), from 293 reported incidents within 1 km of its center. South Blue Valley (38/100) and Central Blue Valley and Park Tower Gardens (37/100) follow.
Which neighborhood in Truman Plaza, Kansas City has the most reported crime?
Independence Plaza has the lowest index in Truman Plaza, Kansas City, at 17/100, with 931 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 Truman Plaza, Kansas City safe?
Across its 14 neighborhoods the median SafeRoute safety index is 27/100, against 55 across Kansas City. 0 rate low risk, 0 moderate, 9 elevated and 5 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 Truman Plaza, Kansas City is the median of its 14 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.