The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Kennett, MO
Kennett is a city of 10,900 in Dunklin County, about 30 miles northeast of downtown Paragould · Updated November 2026
Is Kennett, MO safe?
With an overall CrimeGrade™ of B+, Kennett has moderate crime by national standards. Most US neighborhoods have less: 67% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime. Violent and property crime both grade B+ here. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Kennett run from A+ to C, so check the map below.
B+
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 725 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
33% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Kennett as a whole, and 67% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Kennett scores 725.
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 Kennett, MO at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Kennett, 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 Kennett
Car thefts are less common than the crime level suggests. Crime overall in Kennett runs at about double the US rate, but car thefts run 30% below it: 1.9 a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 nationally.
Reported rapes run high for a B-graded city. Kennett has 1.0 reported rapes a year per 1,000 residents; for the typical resident of a B-graded US city, the figure is 0.42.
The safest and least safe parts of Kennett
Most of Kennett grades well: 82% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and the rest in areas graded C. Grades across Kennett run from A+ to C; 7% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
82%18%
A or B 82%C 18%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Within Kennett, the southwest side has the least crime and the center the most.
Crime rates and types in Kennett
CrimeGrade™ estimates Kennett has about 77 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, about double the rate for the US as a whole and 83% more than Missouri.
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.
Theft is the most common crime in Kennett, about 39% of everything reported, but assault costs more, because each one does more harm.
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 Kennett
Kennett has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
In Kennett, 55% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often at homes: 54% of them, against 34% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (55%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Homes (60%)
Night (midnight to 6 am)
Theft from cars
Homes (54%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Vandalism
Homes (66%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Aggravated assault
Homes (71%)
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 Kennett compares with nearby cities
Kennett has the most crime of its 1 nearest cities.
Parking lots, empty homes and walkability in Kennett
Two things set Kennett apart: it has 4.4 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally, and 13.5% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally. Places like that tend to report more theft, and it runs high here.
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.4.4 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 96% of US city residents
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.13.5% of homesUS: 7.1%Higher than for 94% 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. 76% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D+ (20 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 60% 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.16.0 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 91% 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 Kennett: F (0 of 100).NoneUS: noneLower than for 84% 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.2% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 83% of US city residents
BestNeighborhood, a sister site of CrimeGrade™, ranks the neighborhoods of Kennett on shops, parks, home prices, getting around and more.
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 Kennett
Crime costs Kennett about $1,851 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, 54% 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 $23 million a year, or $2,123 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$1.0 million
$93
Rape
$670,000
$61
Robbery
$310,000
$28
Assault
$3.1 million
$283
Burglary
$570,000
$52
Theft
$1.7 million
$154
Vehicle theft
$320,000
$29
Arson
$210,000
$19
Vandalism
$630,000
$58
Total
$8.5 million
$778
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 Kennett 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 Kennett, MO average a SchoolGrade of D-: 34% of students test proficient, against 27% projected for schools like them. Overall, they exceed expectations. See schools in Kennett on SchoolGrade
