Bonner Springs High School · Photo: SharonPapierdreams · CC BY-SA 4.0Bonner Springs has more violent crime per resident than four in five U.S. towns
On crimes Bonner Springs’ police reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades C− for safety: #56 of 80 graded towns in Kansas. What’s more, of the 3 towns on its borders with figures, 2 record less crime per resident. The local count comes to 3.9 violent crimes and 18.6 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 4.8 and 22.4 in the rest of Kansas.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of KS” is every other Kansas city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What stands out about safety in Bonner Springs
2 of the 3 graded towns next door report less crime
Of the 4 Kansas towns on Bonner Springs’ borders, 3 have a Safety Grade: Shawnee (C+), Edwardsville (C−), Kansas City (D). Fairmount Township has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025. Neighbors ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Bonner Springs’ grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are higher than in most U.S. towns; property crime is the closer of the two to typical.
Crime in Bonner Springs per 1,000 residents
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And about 6 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Violent crime, by year and by type
Show as a table
| Year | Bonner Springs | Rest of Kansas | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 4.9 | 5.0 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 2.2 | 4.8 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 4.1 | 4.1 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 5.5 | 5.5 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Bonner Springs’ police reported 91 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 3.9 per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.8 in the rest of Kansas and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Reported crime is steady
Show as a table
| Year | Bonner Springs property | Rest of Kansas property | Bonner Springs violent | Rest of Kansas violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 21.2 | 24.3 | 4.9 | 5.0 |
| 2023 | 27.5 | 24.2 | 2.2 | 4.8 |
| 2024 | 15.9 | 20.2 | 4.1 | 4.1 |
| 2025 | 12.6 | 22.9 | 5.5 | 5.5 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Kansas.
142 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
43 violent and 99 property, as reported to the FBI by Bonner Springs’ police.
Four people died in crashes on Bonner Springs’s roads in 2019–2023
Bonner Springs had 4 fatal crashes in five years, in which four people died. Most of these deaths (2 of 4) were on an Interstate passing through, so they say more about through-traffic than about the town’s own streets.
That is about what is typical for Kansas towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (5.0 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Bonner Springs’s size would see about 2 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Bonner Springs’s own rate (10.2) is context, not a ranking.
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
Bonner Springs and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bonner Springs | C− | 3.9 | 18.6 |
| Kansas City | D | 7.2 | 24.0 |
| Shawnee | C+ | 2.4 | 15.2 |
| Edwardsville | C− | 4.3 | 15.2 |
| Fairmount Township | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Fairmount Township has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025.
Kansas towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bonner Springs | C− | 3.9 | 18.6 |
| Basehor | B+ | 1.7 | 6.0 |
| Maize | C+ | 2.2 | 15.4 |
| Fort Scott | C− | 3.3 | 19.1 |
| Wellington | D | 4.0 | 28.4 |
| Coffeyville | D | 5.6 | 25.9 |
The five graded Kansas towns closest to Bonner Springs’ population (7,962), by grade.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- One number for all of Bonner Springs. A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Bonner Springs’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (7,832 in 2025); our figure for Bonner Springs is 7,962 (2025 Census estimate).
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in Bonner Springs
Is Bonner Springs, KS safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Bonner Springs reports more crime per resident than 79% of U.S. towns, a C− Safety Grade and #56 of 80 in Kansas. Its police reported 3.9 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.8 in the rest of Kansas and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Bonner Springs?
3.9 violent and 18.6 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Kansas reports 4.8 and 22.4; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Is Bonner Springs safer than Kansas City?
Kansas City reports more crime per resident than Bonner Springs: Kansas City grades D for safety and Bonner Springs C−. Kansas City’s police reported 7.2 violent and 24.0 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Bonner Springs?
Bonner Springs’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Bonner Springs”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
Heads-up board
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Please don’t name or describe individuals. In an emergency, call 911.
Neighbors looking out for each other in Bonner Springs.
Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.