Photo: Quint2724 · CC BY-SA 4.0On property crime, Westwood has a higher rate per resident than 95% of U.S. towns
The yearly rates were 2.1 violent crimes and 36.7 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 4.8 and 22.4 in the rest of Kansas. By contrast, its Safety Grade, D, rests on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025: more crime per resident than 88% of U.S. towns.
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 Westwood
1 of the 1 graded towns next door reports less crime
Of the 2 Kansas towns on Westwood’s borders, 1 have a Safety Grade: Roeland Park (C−). Fairway reported to the FBI for 2023 and 2024 but not 2025. Neighbors ↓
A job center
Westwood has 2,079 jobs based in town for 1,720 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Westwood’s 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; violent crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its violent rate (2.1) is below the FBI’s national estimate (3.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Crime in Westwood 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.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Westwood | Rest of Kansas | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2.3 | 5.0 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 2.9 | 4.8 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.8 | 4.1 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.8 | 5.5 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Westwood’s police reported 11 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 2.1 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
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| Year | Westwood property | Rest of Kansas property | Westwood violent | Rest of Kansas violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 54.4 | 24.3 | 2.3 | 5.0 |
| 2023 | 39.9 | 24.2 | 2.9 | 4.8 |
| 2024 | 41.5 | 20.2 | 1.8 | 4.1 |
| 2025 | 28.6 | 22.8 | 1.8 | 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.
52 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.
3 violent and 49 property, as reported to the FBI by Westwood’s police.
No one died in a crash on Westwood’s roads in 2019–2023
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 Westwood’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Westwood’s own rate (0.0) 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.
Westwood and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westwood | D | 2.1 | 36.7 |
| Fairway | — | — | — |
| Roeland Park | C− | 2.3 | 23.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westwood | D | 2.1 | 36.7 |
| Sterling | A | 0.6 | 4.2 |
| Horton | B− | 1.6 | 12.5 |
| Neodesha | C+ | 3.6 | 6.6 |
| Cherryvale | D | 5.7 | 21.7 |
| Fredonia | D | 3.4 | 36.0 |
The five graded Kansas towns closest to Westwood’s population (1,720), 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 Westwood. 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 Westwood’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (1,712 in 2025); our figure for Westwood is 1,720 (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 Westwood
Is Westwood, KS safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Westwood reports more crime per resident than 88% of U.S. towns, a D Safety Grade. Its police reported 2.1 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 Westwood?
2.1 violent and 36.7 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 Westwood safer than Roeland Park?
Roeland Park reports less crime per resident than Westwood: Roeland Park grades C− for safety and Westwood D. Roeland Park’s police reported 2.3 violent and 23.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Westwood?
Westwood’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Westwood”. 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.