The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Garden City, KS
Garden City is a city of 32,000 in Finney County · Updated November 2026
Is Garden City, KS safe?
Yes. An overall CrimeGrade™ of A- means crime in Garden City is low. Most US neighborhoods have little crime too, so Garden City sits near the middle: 49% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime, and 51% in neighborhoods with less. Violent and property crime both grade A- here. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Garden City run from A+ to B, so check the map below.
A-
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 833 of 1,000About as safe as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
49% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Garden City as a whole, and 51% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Garden City scores 833.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its crime with the people, homes and cars there, on one national scale, from green for the least crime to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy shopping center can show red while the homes beside it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a strong connection. Compare high speed internet in Garden City, KS at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Garden City, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out in Garden City
Robberies run high for an A-graded city. Garden City has 0.50 robberies a year per 1,000 residents; for the typical resident of an A-graded US city, the figure is 0.13.
The safest and least safe parts of Garden City
Every part of Garden City where people live grades A or B on the national scale. Grades across Garden City run from A+ to B; 26% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
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A or B 100%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Within Garden City, the northeast side has the least crime and the west side the most.
Is crime going up in Garden City?
Reported violent crime in Garden City peaked in 2022 and has fallen 15% since, back near its 2019 level. Property crime is down 19% from 2019. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 5.1 to 5.0 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 25 to 20 (US: 18). In 2024 alone, violent crime fell 13% and property crime fell 20%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
Garden CityUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police department that serves Garden City. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Garden City
Violent, US
Property, Garden City
Property, US
2016
+4%
+4%
+30%
+15%
2017
+27%
+4%
+12%
+12%
2018
-8%
+0%
-7%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
+0%
+4%
+30%
-8%
2021
+5%
+6%
+31%
-10%
2022
+16%
+5%
+4%
-6%
2023
+13%
+2%
+1%
-7%
2024
-2%
-4%
-19%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Garden City
CrimeGrade™ estimates Garden City has about 46 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 25% more than the US as a whole and close to Kansas.
Overall crime
Violent crime
Property crime
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. These figures include simple assaults and vandalism, which the FBI's violent and property crime rates leave out.
The largest share of crime reported in Garden City is assault, about 38% of the total. It also makes up the largest share of what crime costs here.
Each CrimeGrade™ compares a crime with what it affects: people for assaults and robbery, homes for burglary, parked cars for vehicle theft. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Where and when crime happens in Garden City
Garden City has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
In Garden City, 72% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often at homes: 37% of them, against 34% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (72%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Homes (48%)
Night (midnight to 6 am)
Theft from cars
Homes (37%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (43%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (68%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
How Garden City compares with nearby cities
Garden City has the most crime of its 5 nearest cities.
Parking lots, transit and walkability in Garden City
One thing sets Garden City apart: it has 3.7 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally. Places like that tend to report more theft; here theft sits near the national middle.
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.3.7 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 92% of US city residents
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft and robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Garden City: F (0 of 100).NoneUS: noneLower than for 84% of US city residents
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more theft and assault. 71% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D+ (24 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 71% of US city residents
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Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft.14.0 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 82% of US city residents
Lit at nightSatellite images show which neighborhoods are lit at night, a sign of busy streets and businesses. Brightly lit places tend to report more theft and vandalism.92% where people liveUS: 78%Lower than for 58% of US city residents
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.11% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 58% of US city residents
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What crime costs Garden City
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Garden City about $1,401 a year per household, 16% more than the US figure of $1,205.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost comes to about $45 million a year, or $1,412 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$1.2 million
$39
Rape
$1.1 million
$34
Robbery
$500,000
$16
Assault
$6.8 million
$212
Burglary
$470,000
$15
Theft
$2.6 million
$80
Vehicle theft
$760,000
$24
Arson
$89,000
$3
Vandalism
$2.0 million
$62
Total
$16 million
$485
How CrimeGrade™ works
A CrimeGrade™ shows how much crime an area has compared with the rest of the country, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most. Every neighborhood in the US is graded on the same scale, so a B in Garden City means the same as a B anywhere else.
CrimeGrade™ starts from the crimes people report to police and measures each kind of crime against what it affects: people for assaults, homes for burglaries, parked cars for car thefts.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
Published research on what crime costs victims and communities
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
Schools in Garden City, KS average a SchoolGrade of D: 35% of students test proficient, against 30% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in Garden City on SchoolGrade
