Photo: Iknowthegoods · CC BY-SA 3.0For violent crime, Mission Hills beats 69% of U.S. towns per resident
The overall Safety Grade is B− (#23 of 80 graded towns in Kansas), which means close to the middle of U.S. towns, judged on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025. What’s more, in a usual year, 0.9 violent crime and 13.5 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the rest of Kansas, 4.8 and 22.4.
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 Mission Hills
1 of the 1 graded towns next door reports less crime
Of the 2 Kansas towns on Mission Hills’ borders, 1 have a Safety Grade: Prairie Village (B+). Fairway reported to the FBI for 2023 and 2024 but not 2025. Neighbors ↓
Among Kansas towns, higher
Kansas’ cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Mission Hills’ place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 71% of the 80 Kansas towns we grade, against 53% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Mission Hills’ grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Violent crime holds Mission Hills’ grade up; property crime pulls it down. Its property rate (13.5) is below the FBI’s national estimate (17.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Mission Hills | Rest of Kansas | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.8 | 5.0 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.6 | 4.8 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.6 | 4.2 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.7 | 5.5 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Mission Hills’ police reported 10 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.9 per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.8 in the rest of Kansas and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Mission Hills 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 2 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Mission Hills property | Rest of Kansas property | Mission Hills violent | Rest of Kansas violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 26.6 | 24.3 | 0.8 | 5.0 |
| 2023 | 15.6 | 24.2 | 0.6 | 4.8 |
| 2024 | 17.4 | 20.2 | 0.6 | 4.2 |
| 2025 | 7.4 | 22.8 | 1.7 | 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.
32 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.
6 violent and 26 property, as reported to the FBI by Mission Hills’ police.
One person died in crashes on Mission Hills’s roads in 2019–2023
Mission Hills had 1 fatal crash in five years, in which one person died.
That is about what is typical for Kansas towns of 2,500–5,000 people: at their median rate (6.2 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Mission Hills’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Mission Hills’s own rate (5.6) 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.
Mission Hills and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mission Hills | B− | 0.9 | 13.5 |
| Prairie Village | B+ | 0.8 | 9.6 |
| Fairway | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Fairway reported to the FBI for 2023 and 2024 but not 2025.
Kansas towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mission Hills | B− | 0.9 | 13.5 |
| Hesston | B+ | 0.4 | 10.8 |
| Frontenac | B− | 1.8 | 9.7 |
| Holton | B− | 1.9 | 11.1 |
| Larned | C | 4.1 | 12.6 |
| Lyons | C | 2.8 | 18.8 |
The five graded Kansas towns closest to Mission Hills’ population (3,522), 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 Mission Hills. 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 Mission Hills’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (3,504 in 2025); our figure for Mission Hills is 3,522 (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 Mission Hills
Is Mission Hills, KS safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Mission Hills reports less crime per resident than 53% of U.S. towns, a B− Safety Grade and #23 of 80 in Kansas. Its police reported 0.9 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 Mission Hills?
0.9 violent and 13.5 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 Mission Hills safer than Prairie Village?
Prairie Village reports less crime per resident than Mission Hills: Prairie Village grades B+ for safety and Mission Hills B−. Prairie Village’s police reported 0.8 violent and 9.6 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Mission Hills?
Mission Hills’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Mission Hills”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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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.