Wichita, KS crime rate
In 2025 the Wichita Police Department reported 1,210.0 violent crimes and 4,648.6 property crimes per 100,000 residents it covers. The FBI's estimates for Kansas and the US for the same year are beside each number.
Data as of 2025 (FBI), checked October 30, 2026. How we got these numbers
How does Wichita compare with Kansas and the US?
Arson has no FBI state or US estimate, so its row shows Wichita only.
What offenses were reported in Wichita, 2025?
| Offense | Reported | Per 100k | Kansas | US | vs 2024 | vs 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crime | ||||||
| Violent crime | 4,861 | 1,210.0 | 457.2 | 327.6 | down 2.3% | up 4.2% |
| Murder | 36 | 9.0 | 4.8 | 4.1 | up 8.4% | down 25.0% |
| Rape | 405 | 100.8 | 43.6 | 36.1 | up 16.3% | up 11.8% |
| Robbery | 381 | 94.8 | 31.5 | 49.4 | down 13.0% | down 6.0% |
| Aggravated assault | 4,039 | 1,005.4 | 377.4 | 238.0 | down 2.8% | up 5.0% |
| Property crime | ||||||
| Property crime | 18,675 | 4,648.6 | 1,796.5 | 1,534.8 | down 12.0% | up 3.4% |
| Burglary | 2,276 | 566.5 | 241.6 | 193.6 | down 14.7% | up 14.0% |
| Larceny-theft | 13,987 | 3,481.7 | 1,339.4 | 1,144.1 | down 12.4% | up 2.7% |
| Motor vehicle theft | 2,280 | 567.5 | 215.4 | 197.0 | down 7.3% | down 2.0% |
| Arson | 132 | 32.9 | Not estimated | Not estimated | down 4.4% | up 18.3% |
Reported = offenses known to the Wichita Police Department and sent to the FBI. Kansas and US are FBI estimates for the same year. Changes compare rates of full years only.
Violent crime rate, 2021 to 2025
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| Year | Wichita | United States | Kansas |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1,160.9 | 387.0 | 444.9 |
| 2022 | 1,107.6 | 388.7 | 446.9 |
| 2023 | 1,155.9 | 379.5 | 468.6 |
| 2024 | 1,238.7 | 362.9 | 460.7 |
| 2025 | 1,210.0 | 327.6 | 457.2 |
Property crime rate, 2021 to 2025
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| Year | Wichita | United States | Kansas |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 4,494.4 | 1,832.3 | 2,247.2 |
| 2022 | 4,276.1 | 1,973.8 | 2,121.9 |
| 2023 | 4,832.9 | 1,934.1 | 2,337.2 |
| 2024 | 5,284.9 | 1,761.1 | 2,108.7 |
| 2025 | 4,648.6 | 1,534.8 | 1,796.5 |
Is Wichita safe?
We don't rate cities as safe or unsafe. What the FBI's numbers show: in 2025 the violent crime rate the Wichita Police Department reported, 1,210.0 per 100,000 residents, was higher than Kansas's 457.2, and higher than the US rate of 327.6 (FBI estimates). It fell 2.3% from 2024.
What these numbers can't tell you:
- How crime differs between neighborhoods (the FBI publishes agency totals only).
- Crimes nobody reported to the police.
- How many offenses involved visitors and commuters, who are not in the population count.
Wichita police had 18,675 property crimes and 4,861 violent crimes reported to the FBI in 2025. The violent count equals 1,210.0 per 100,000 residents covered by the Wichita Police Department, 2.6 times the Kansas estimate of 457.2 and 3.7 times the US rate of 327.6. The property rate of 4,648.6 was 2.6 times the state's 1,796.5 and 3.0 times the national 1,534.8.
Both rates fell in the last year, violent crime by 2.3% and property crime by 12.0%. Measured from 2021, both were higher: violent crime by 4.2% and property crime by 3.4%. Rape had the largest rise of the violent offenses, 16.3% from 2024 and 11.8% from 2021, to 100.8 per 100,000.
Robbery fell the most in the last year, 13.0%. Murder fell 25.0% from 2021, the largest fall in the group across that span, to 36 homicides, or 9.0 per 100,000. Aggravated assault made up 83% of violent crime and was 4.2 times the US rate.
Burglary fell the most of the property offenses from 2024, 14.7%, and larceny-theft was 75% of property crime. All 12 months were sent in each of the 5 years shown, and the department has reported to NIBRS since 2000. The Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office and Wichita State University police report separately, so their cases are not in these figures.
Written from the numbers on this page. Every figure and every comparison is checked against the stored FBI data before publishing.
Police employees, 2025: 2.15 per 1,000 residents (663 officers, 200 civilians), FBI Crime Data Explorer. Shown as context, not as a measure of crime.
Sources
- FBI Crime Data Explorer, Wichita Police Department (ORI KS0870300), offenses known to law enforcement and police employees, 2021 to 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026. Crime Data Explorer
- FBI Crime Data Explorer, Kansas and United States estimated crime (Summary Reporting System estimates), 2021 to 2025.
- FBI, "UCR Statistics: Their Proper Use" (why we don't rank cities).
Every stored file behind this page (11)
- Wichita Police Department (KS0870300): violent crime, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_KS0870300_violent_crime__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Wichita Police Department (KS0870300): murder, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_KS0870300_homicide__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Wichita Police Department (KS0870300): rape, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_KS0870300_rape__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Wichita Police Department (KS0870300): robbery, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_KS0870300_robbery__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Wichita Police Department (KS0870300): aggravated assault, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_KS0870300_aggravated_assault__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Wichita Police Department (KS0870300): property crime, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_KS0870300_property_crime__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Wichita Police Department (KS0870300): burglary, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_KS0870300_burglary__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Wichita Police Department (KS0870300): larceny-theft, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_KS0870300_larceny__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Wichita Police Department (KS0870300): motor vehicle theft, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_KS0870300_motor_vehicle_theft__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Wichita Police Department (KS0870300): arson, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_KS0870300_arson__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Wichita Police Department (KS0870300): police employees, 2021 to 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/pe_agency_KS0870300__from-2021-to-2025.json)